From: Lars Brinkhoff <lars@nocrew.org>
To: jnc@mercury.lcs.mit.edu (Noel Chiappa)
Cc: tuhs@tuhs.org
Subject: Re: [TUHS] Unix NCP protocol stack for ARPANET
Date: Thu, 28 Oct 2021 09:41:44 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <7wh7d1a3l3.fsf@junk.nocrew.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20211025185015.C74C918C0B5@mercury.lcs.mit.edu> (Noel Chiappa's message of "Mon, 25 Oct 2021 14:50:15 -0400 (EDT)")
Noel Chiappa wrote:
> this is just a terminological affliction among the CHAOS people, to
> whom 'NCP' apparently meant 'protocol implementation' or 'network
> code'.
I always assumed this interpretation of "Network Control Program" was
"software component that controls the network", and that this would
apply equally well to many different networks.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-10-28 9:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-10-25 18:50 Noel Chiappa
2021-10-28 9:41 ` Lars Brinkhoff [this message]
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2021-10-26 8:06 Paul Ruizendaal
2021-10-25 16:50 Paul Ruizendaal
2021-10-25 19:04 ` Lars Brinkhoff
2021-10-24 16:16 Lars Brinkhoff
2021-10-24 17:24 ` Clem Cole
2021-10-24 18:32 ` Ron Natalie
2021-10-24 19:28 ` Clem Cole
2021-10-24 19:28 ` Warner Losh
2021-10-24 20:25 ` Clem Cole
2021-10-25 9:26 ` Lars Brinkhoff
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