[ih] capacity v bandwidth

[Greg Skinner]

On Jun 3, 2026, at 2:25 PM, Barbara Denny via Internet-history <internet-history at elists.isoc.org> wrote:
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> The only very, very vague memory i have of the router versus gateway topic is later. I think it came up when i was working  on the RP final report. I was talking to Jim Mathis.  It was more like what term should i use in the report. This is a very iffy memory so i don't think it is very useful or trustworthy. Jim left SRI in 1987.
> barbara
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This topic has come up on this list before; Brian Carpenter noted the use of ‘router’ in the 1979 PARC PUP internetwork architecture paper. [1] Some early 1980s Unix routed code and configuration information indicates it is based on XNS, and also has some mentions of ‘router’. [2] [3] [4]

[1] https://www.bitsavers.org/pdf/xerox/parc/techReports/CSL-79-10_Pup_An_Internetwork_Architecture_Jul79.pdf
[2] https://www.tuhs.org/cgi-bin/utree.pl?file=2.9BSD/usr/net/src/netser/routed/routed.c
[3] https://www.tuhs.org/cgi-bin/utree.pl?file=2.9BSD/usr/net/src/netser/routed/router.h
[4] https://www.tuhs.org/cgi-bin/utree.pl?file=4.1cBSD/etc/services