[IP] Re: NSF and the Birth of the Internet

[David Farber <dave@farber.net>]

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From: Dave Crocker <dhc2@dcrocker.net>
Date: August 19, 2008 7:25:33 PM EDT
To: dave@farber.net
Cc: ip <ip@v2.listbox.com>
Subject: Re: [IP] Re:     NSF and the Birth of the Internet
Reply-To: dcrocker@bbiw.net


> > Note that MIT's ITS machines were online under TCP on the flag day,  
> > which was NOT true of berkeley unix


UDel got a contract from Arpa to do Arpanet(ncp)/Internet(tcp) email  
relaying, in anticipation of transition "challenges".  We were running  
BSD and the gateway was operational before flag day.

That means that BSD had TCP significantly before the January, 1983  
flag day.

d/
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 Dave Crocker
 Brandenburg InternetWorking
 bbiw.net




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