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From: ches@cheswick.com (William Cheswick)
Subject: [TUHS] ARPAnet now 4 nodes
Date: Tue, 5 Dec 2017 09:52:17 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <E52E64F7-99EF-45F4-B919-59A307A2F0DC@cheswick.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5DC50DA3-0165-4139-AA3A-30FCA569C2FD@planet.nl>

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I really wonder how the CDC link worked.  The channels were electrically strange, and certainly not easily amenable to communicating with anything other than CDC controllers or perhaps a serial line through one of the front ends.

I did hear of a proposal at NADC around 1977 to try to hook into telnet and ftp from a CDC using some hack of the serial stuff.  The idea didn’t impress me: it would have taken a lot of hacking to get a kludge working.  It always took a lot to make CDC hardware play well with others.

> On 5Dec 2017, at 3:24 AM, Paul Ruizendaal <pnr at planet.nl> wrote:
> 
> - In 1974, the Lab’s CDC 6600 became the first online supercomputer when it was connected to ARPANET, the Internet’s predecessor.

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2017-12-05 14:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
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2017-12-05  8:14 ` Paul Ruizendaal
2017-12-05  8:24 ` Paul Ruizendaal
2017-12-05 14:46   ` Jon Forrest
2017-12-05 14:52   ` William Cheswick [this message]
2018-12-04 20:44 Dave Horsfall
2018-12-04 20:50 ` Clem Cole
2018-12-04 20:57   ` Clem Cole
2018-12-04 20:57 ` Lars Brinkhoff
2018-12-04 22:06 ` Jon Forrest
2018-12-04 22:14   ` Larry McVoy
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2017-12-05 15:22 Noel Chiappa
2017-12-05  3:43 Noel Chiappa
2017-12-05  3:46 ` Deborah Scherrer
2017-12-05  3:49   ` Dan Cross
2017-12-05  2:52 Noel Chiappa
2017-12-05  3:10 ` Deborah Scherrer
2017-12-05  1:05 Noel Chiappa
2017-12-05  1:13 ` Deborah Scherrer
2017-12-05  1:38 ` Jon Forrest
2017-12-05  1:56   ` Deborah Scherrer
2017-12-04 23:44 Noel Chiappa
2017-12-04 23:42 Noel Chiappa
2017-12-04 23:06 Dave Horsfall
2017-12-04 23:14 ` Jon Forrest
2017-12-04 23:18   ` Deborah Scherrer
2017-12-08  2:08 ` Dave Horsfall

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