[ih] TCP adoption in 1984

Bob Purvy bpurvy at gmail.com
Sat May 2 15:26:15 PDT 2026


Grok's estimate is that about 900 hosts could be reached via TCP, at the
end of 1984. RFC 984 for TCP over Ethernet was in April of that year.

Were these *entirely* university and research machines? Were any of them
actually running TCP on Ethernet? Does anyone know"

Thanks,

Bob


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