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[ih] "Subnet"
2012/5/11 <dave.walden.family at gmail.com>:
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> On May 10, 2012, at 7:11 PM, "Bernie Cosell" <bernie at fantasyfarm.com> wrote:
>> Well, I don't think there was any 'subnet'ing with the ARPAnet
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> Well, I vaguely remember there was in some other sense -- logical subnets, a seldom used, if ever, feature where the IMPs could let a subset of hosts only communicate with each other. ?Or, instead of a vague memory, do I have a wrong memory? ? ?(Of course this is irrelevant to the distinction previously being discussed.)
Right memory. Logical subnetworks were introduced in 1974 (see BBN
reports 2852 and 2913; or CTRL-F in my 2010 thesis).
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