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[ih] Peter Salus / Baran's work
- Subject: [ih] Peter Salus / Baran's work
- From: jeanjour at comcast.net (John Day)
- Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2015 13:34:27 -0500
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ARPANET had adaptive routing from the start.
This question is more about what people were doing and thinking in the 1969-1971 time frame, not events almost 10 years or more later.
John
> On Jan 13, 2015, at 13:21, Bill Ricker <bill.n1vux at gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Tue, Jan 13, 2015 at 10:46 AM, John Day <jeanjour at comcast.net <mailto:jeanjour at comcast.net>> wrote:
> I think the nuclear war meme is really more tightly associated with the Internet than the ARPANET.
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> ?Hmm, that makes sense.
> (D)ARPAnet initially had fixed routing, not useful in damage-prone environment.
> It was ?TCP/IP that introduced adaptive routing around damage.
> (USEnet evolved adaptive routing, i don't recall how that was related .)
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> Also note that the Military nearly adopted the ISO OSI protocol stack not the TCP/IP Internet stack, even though DARPA had subsidized the (pre-Web/NSF/NSCC) development !
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> --
> Bill Ricker
> bill.n1vux at gmail.com <mailto:bill.n1vux at gmail.com>
> https://www.linkedin.com/in/n1vux <https://www.linkedin.com/in/n1vux>
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