From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: lars at nocrew.org (Lars Brinkhoff)
Date: Thu, 05 Dec 2019 08:01:32 +0000
Subject: [COFF] ARPAnet now 4 nodes
In-Reply-To: <20191205041940.GP32688@mcvoy.com> (Larry McVoy's message of
 "Wed, 4 Dec 2019 20:19:40 -0800")
References: <alpine.BSF.2.21.9999.1912051108010.99521@aneurin.horsfall.org>
 <20191205041940.GP32688@mcvoy.com>
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Larry McVoy wrote:
> I'd love to know the order of nodes joining and how that was scored.

Some early RFC describe nodes being connected.

For example, RFC 254 says "The MIT PDP-10(AI) system uses the ITS
operating system and is similar to the MIT PDP-10(DMCG) system. At
present the host is not connected to the ARPANET."  RFC 342 has it as a
"network user", and in RFC 344 it's updated to a server.

Are the IMP numbers any indication which order they were connected?