Pat Barron wrote:
> If you were using it in 1975-1976, it wasn't FTP as it exists today -
> it would be the FTP implemented on top of the "old" ARPANET protocols
> (sometimes referred to as "NCP", but I believe more properly referred to
> as simply "Host-to-Host Protocol").
That's correct.
> But that reminds me of a question I had while I was having lunch today ...
> Was there ever an implementation of the old ARPANET protocols on a PDP-11
> or VAX Unix?
Not that I know of. There was an implementation running on a non-Unix
capabilities-list operating system at LLL called, IIRC, RATS/RISOS that
I believe had such an implementation. Everything else I came in contact
with had VDH IMP interfaces.
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Received on Fri Mar 31 2000 - 15:29:53 BST