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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.

  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]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
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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