[ih] Internet-history Digest, Vol 50, Issue 6 (Xerox Alto TCP and the ICCB)

[Vint Cerf]

of course, at the time, the project was an experiment to see if it could be
done at all...we hacked around with A,B,C,D,E address interpretation and
eventually developed IPv6 but this is still far less implemented than need
be. We really need the additional space.

v


On Tue, Jan 30, 2024 at 12:49 AM Greg Skinner via Internet-history <
internet-history at elists.isoc.org> wrote:

>
> On Jan 24, 2024, at 12:57 PM, Larry Masinter <LMM at acm.org> wrote:
> >
> >>> When Xerox gave Alto/Ethernet/Dover/PUP systems to a number of
> >>> universities (Stanford, MIT, CMU, CalTech, Rochester), I think it
> included
> >>> Nova-based PUP "gateways"
> >>
> >> Umm, no. I cannot speak with certainty about what Stanford and CMU got,
> but I
> >> can say with great certainty that all that MIT got was several UNIBUS
> >> Experimental Ethernet cards:
> >>
> >> https://gunkies.org/wiki/UNIBUS_Experimental_Ethernet_interface
> >>
> >> I believe, from scraps I heard about what happened at Stanford and CMU,
> that
> >> it was the same there.
> >
> > The attached text describes the first year of the Xerox University Grant,
> > or at least what was offered.
> >
> > --
> > https://LarryMasinter.net  https://interlisp.org
> > <ug.txt>
>
> While poking around the saildart.org <http://saildart.org/> site, I found
> a debate between Mark Crispin (MRC) and John Seamons regarding Altos, PUP,
> and a few other things (including a criticism by MRC that IP addresses
> allowed only eight bits of network at that time). [1]
>
> For what it's worth, here is the Cringely article about “Ships in the
> Night” multiprotocol routers and more mention of Altos and PUP at a meeting
> at Xerox PARC in October 1979. [2] [3]
>
> —gregbo
>
> [1] https://www.saildart.org/ETHER.MSG%5B1,LES%5D1
> [2]
> https://web.archive.org/web/20071011154314/https://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/1998/pulpit_19981210_000593.html
> [3] https://www.rfc-editor.org/ien/ien126.txt
>
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