From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on inbox.vuxu.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=MAILING_LIST_MULTI autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 Received: (qmail 28595 invoked from network); 25 Oct 2021 09:26:53 -0000 Received: from minnie.tuhs.org (45.79.103.53) by inbox.vuxu.org with ESMTPUTF8; 25 Oct 2021 09:26:53 -0000 Received: by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix, from userid 112) id C051F9D355; Mon, 25 Oct 2021 19:26:44 +1000 (AEST) Received: from minnie.tuhs.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 415C09CCA2; Mon, 25 Oct 2021 19:26:12 +1000 (AEST) Received: by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix, from userid 112) id B1C2F9CCA2; Mon, 25 Oct 2021 19:26:08 +1000 (AEST) Received: from junk.nocrew.org (junk.nocrew.org [51.15.56.219]) by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 341919CBED for ; Mon, 25 Oct 2021 19:26:08 +1000 (AEST) Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=junk.nocrew.org) by junk.nocrew.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_128_GCM_SHA256:128) (Exim 4.86_2) (envelope-from ) id 1mewF3-0004Jn-Tn; Mon, 25 Oct 2021 09:26:05 +0000 From: Lars Brinkhoff To: Clem Cole Organization: nocrew References: <7wtuh6e6u6.fsf@junk.nocrew.org> Date: Mon, 25 Oct 2021 09:26:05 +0000 In-Reply-To: (Clem Cole's message of "Sun, 24 Oct 2021 13:24:34 -0400") Message-ID: <7w8ryhe9qq.fsf@junk.nocrew.org> User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.0.50 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Subject: Re: [TUHS] Unix NCP protocol stack for ARPANET X-BeenThere: tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.26 Precedence: list List-Id: The Unix Heritage Society mailing list List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Cc: tuhs@tuhs.org Errors-To: tuhs-bounces@minnie.tuhs.org Sender: "TUHS" Clem Cole wrote: > > Has any other NCP implementation for Unix survived? From old host > > tables I think there may have been some VAXen online before the > > switch to TCP/IP. > > Hmmm... I find that interesting because Stan Smith and I wrote the > original IP/TCP for the VAX in 1979/1980 when we were at Tektronix > [...]. When Stan and I started that work, I had looked everywhere I > could think to find an NCP implementation, and never found one. That seems consistent with host tables I see. According to those, there were no VAXen on the ARPANET in 1980. However, there were a a dozen or so in mid 1981; mostly VMS. (I'd also like to ask about NCP for VMS, but this is TUHS.) In early 1982 the number of VAXen has doubled, and out of those 10 are running Unix including prominent sites like BBN, CCA, PURDUE, RAND, UCB. Here's the rub. Some hosts may have jumped the TCP/IP gun ahead of the 1/1 1983 flag day. The host tables don't say. Could it be that all those VAXen were running experimental TCP/IP in January 1982? > You tell me, but I was under the impression, that you folks at MIT did > a ChaosNet interface, IIRC, so there may have been some sort of > conversion on your LAN, but I really doubt there was a real NCP > running. The MIT host tables do show the Chaos networks, but I don't include those in the count.