[ih] Nit-picking an origin story

[Ole Jacobsen]

"A History of The ARPANET: The First Decade"

Dated 1 April, 1981.

Page 17:

"DECCO was able to handle all the contractual details with the
common carriers for circuit leases. Most of the required 50 kilobit
circuits used in the ARPANET were leased through DECCO from AT&T,
but a small number of circuits were leased from other carriers such
as General Telephone. In addition, DARPA arranged for a special
point of contact in AT&T (long lines), which greatly facilitated the
interactions between the network system contractor, DARPA, and AT&T.
The selection of network node locations and the internode
connections (and, therefore, the location of circuit terminations)
was a specialized topology problem and represented a difficult
theoretical problem in its own right. To help solve this particular
problem, DARPA contracted with the Network Analysis Corporation
(NAC)."

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