From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: ches@cheswick.com (William Cheswick) Date: Tue, 5 Dec 2017 09:52:17 -0500 Subject: [TUHS] ARPAnet now 4 nodes In-Reply-To: <5DC50DA3-0165-4139-AA3A-30FCA569C2FD@planet.nl> References: <5DC50DA3-0165-4139-AA3A-30FCA569C2FD@planet.nl> Message-ID: 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 wrote: > > - In 1974, the Lab’s CDC 6600 became the first online supercomputer when it was connected to ARPANET, the Internet’s predecessor. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: