Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uwm.edu!linac!mp.cs.niu.edu!ux1.cso.uiuc.edu!usenet From: mcdonald@aries.scs.uiuc.edu (Doug McDonald) Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip Subject: Re: IP and Coloured Book Software in the UK Message-ID: <1991Jun22.012518.17926@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> Date: 22 Jun 91 01:25:18 GMT References: <5358@syma.sussex.ac.uk> <12694360385.18.PADLIPSKY@A.ISI.EDU> Sender: usenet@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (News) Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana Lines: 27 In article pcg@aber.ac.uk (Piercarlo Grandi) writes: >On 18 Jun 91 03:24:16 GMT, PADLIPSKY@A.ISI.EDU (Michael Padlipsky) said: > >PADLIPSKY> the Colourisers SHOULD have known better: by the late '70s >PADLIPSKY> TCP/IP implementations were running whilst the only thing the >PADLIPSKY> ISORMites had running was their mouths. > >Not necessarily so; they had viable if fiarly rudimentary X.25 >technology to show. At the end of the seventies one could observe: > > 1) a large scale production WAN, the ARPAnet > 2) experimental or otherwise small scale X.25 technology > > 3) experimental or otherwise small scale Internet technology > 4) papers and intentions about ISO/OSI > A more interesting date, to me, was in late 1973 (or was it early 1974). I proved that the then-existing technology was not so robust by crashing the entire Arpanet and about 30% of the computers on it (all the IBM 360s). Three times in one day. This resulted in a big guru fest in an attempt to figure out how it happened. Doug McDonald