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From: goldstein@delni.enet.dec.com (Fred R. Goldstein)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip
Subject: Re: IP and Coloured Book Software in the UK
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Date: 19 Jun 91 20:49:21 GMT
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In article <12694360385.18.PADLIPSKY@A.ISI.EDU>, PADLIPSKY@A.ISI.EDU 
(Michael Padlipsky) writes...

>Assuming you've figured out which side I'm on, I'll touch briefly on
>why I'd claim the Colourisers SHOULD have known better: by the late
>'70s TCP/IP implementations were running whilst the only thing the
>ISORMites had running was their mouths.

Now that you mention it, I've been looking for somebody who remembers 
the date.

While TCP/IP was being developed in the '70s and had some lab 
implementations, the ARPAnet itself was running NCP for quite a while, 
until they were ready to switch everything over.  I recall that one day 
(well, probably a long weekend) it happened, and NCP was No More.

Anybody remember the date?

I think that was the last time a protocol simply died, kaput, just like 
that, never to be heard from again.  Well, ANF-10 may have outlasted 
it...
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Fred R. Goldstein              Digital Equipment Corp., Littleton MA
goldstein@delni.enet.dec.com   voice: +1 508 952 3274
 Do you think anyone else on the planet would share my opinions, let
 alone a multi-billion dollar corporation?