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From: jnc@mercury.lcs.mit.edu (Noel Chiappa)
Subject: [TUHS] OT: Grace Hopper, Unix epoch, ARPAnet converted to TCP/IP
Date: Sun, 31 Dec 2017 18:10:22 -0500 (EST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20171231231022.CDC7218C09C@mercury.lcs.mit.edu> (raw)

    > From: Dave Horsfall <dave at horsfall.org>

    > the ARPAnet got converted from NCP to TCP/IP in 1983; ... have a more
    > precise date?

No, it was Jan 1.

It wasn't so much a 'conversion', as that was the date on which, except for a
few sites which got special _temporary_ dispensation to finish their
preparations, support for NCP was turned off for most ARPANET hosts. Prior to
that date, most hosts on the ARPANET had been running both, and after that,
only TCP worked. (Non-ARPANET hosts on the then-nascent Internet had always
only been using TCP before that date, of course.)

	Noel


             reply	other threads:[~2017-12-31 23:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-12-31 23:10 Noel Chiappa [this message]
2017-12-31 23:22 ` Dave Horsfall
2017-12-31 23:47   ` Kurt H Maier
2018-01-01  0:15     ` Dave Horsfall
2018-01-01  0:59       ` Kurt H Maier
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2018-01-01 12:59 Noel Chiappa
2018-01-02  0:57 ` Ron Natalie
2018-01-02 16:19 ` Clem Cole
2017-12-31 22:51 Dave Horsfall

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