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[ih] XEROX/PUP and Commercialization (was Re: FYI - Gordon Crovitz/WSJ on "Who Really Invented the Internet?")
- Subject: [ih] XEROX/PUP and Commercialization (was Re: FYI - Gordon Crovitz/WSJ on "Who Really Invented the Internet?")
- From: jnc at mercury.lcs.mit.edu (Noel Chiappa)
- Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2012 20:03:12 -0400 (EDT)
> From: Jack Haverty <jack at 3kitty.org>
> Also, somewhere between RFC675 and RFC793, "Transmission Control
> Program" became "Transmission Control Protocol".
I would guess the original name was by analogy with NCP, which was 'Network
Control Program'. (I always used to think, back in the day, that it was
'Network Control Protocol', but when I looked, contemporanous documentation
basically always has it 'Program'.)
Noel