[ih] TCP adoption in 1984

[Adam Sampson]

Noel Chiappa via Internet-history <internet-history at elists.isoc.org>
writes:

> Xerox gave a large donation of Altos and associated gear (most notably
> 'Dover' laser printers) to MIT, Stanford and CMU; these all used only the 3MB
> Ethernet. (I have been looking online for an original document which says
> when this happened, but I can't find one. Some sources say it happened in
> 1978 , but it might have dribbled over into early 1979.)

It looks like late 1979 for SAIL. From Les Earnest's files:

> SYSTEM MEETING					7 March 1979
> ...
> Xerox:	Xerox is offering the Computer Science Department a Dover
> 		(high speed, high resolution XGP-like printer), an Ethernet,
> 		and some number of Altos - LES.
 
> SYSTEM MEETING					11 July 1979
> ...
> Dover:	Should arrive Sept.-Oct.  Comes with 16-18 Altos & file server.
 
> SYSTEM MEETING					6 September 1979
> ...
> Dover:	Due Oct.

https://www.saildart.org/SYSTEM.MTG[D,LES]52
(There are quite a few other references to the Dover, Altos and Ethernet
under LES, so it's probably worth a grep through there...)

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Adam Sampson <ats at offog.org>                         <http://offog.org/>