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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.