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On 2023-09-28 21:43, Dan Cross wrote:
> In article
4@news.misty.com>,
> Johnny Billquist <bqt@softjar.se> wrote:
>> And at some point after that,
>> all of ARPANET because just the 10.* addresses on the Internet, and then
>> ARPANET was turned off, and it was decided that 10.* should not exist on
>> the Internet anymore...
>
> What you wrote above is certainly true, but given that the
> ARPANET was the original Internet backbone and that the initial
> TCP work for VAX Unix was being done at BBN, it`s not
> unreasonable to believe that they did an NCP implementation for
> the VAX before TCP/IP proper. Of course, that`s speculation (I
> have no evidence) but it`s not unreasonable.
Very definitely possible. And it`s probably even possible to find
concrete information if you dig through the old RFCs. I know there are
ones which are just listing machines and OSes that are capable to
interoperate on the ARPANET. But I`ve read through them so many times I
don`t care to do it again right now. :-)
Johnny
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