On 10/10/02, Fred N. van Kempen scribbled:
> > Yeah, even my wife enjoyed it!
> Sadly, we don't get it in Europe... *sigh* Anyone got a taped
> copy?
>
> > So, the IMPs they built would be the first network interface,
> > right? The precurser to the present-day NIC.
> Well, no.. IMP's connected a local(-ish) network to the remote
> (-ish) network, usually over a slow(-ish ;-) WAN link like a
> 56K switched circuit. You could see them as the first series
> of protocol-converting gateways, though.
>
> Werent they built by BBN, and based on PDP-11(/23's) with the
> Fuzzball software load image?
>
Yeah, built by BBN. They didn't really say in the show what they
based on, though...
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