[ih] Question re rate of growth of the Arpanet

[Dave Crocker]

On 4/22/2025 5:33 PM, the keyboard of geoff goodfellow wrote:
> Marty Yonke rewrote NRD to include reading, access to SNDMSG for 
> sending, and a help system, and called the utility WRD, which was 
> later known as BANANARD. John Vittal then updated this version to 
> include three important commands:


The 'then' for John's effort appears to be a bit controversial.  As I 
understand it, they started working collaboratively and but things... 
diverged.

Anyhow, BananaRD had a very short lifespan, since MSG quickly and 
massively outpaced it.

d/

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