Re: A revolution in Internet point-of-view - Was Re: Internet analyses (Was Re: IPv8...)

vinton cerf via Internet-history <[email protected]>
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Dave,
I think it was more than that - a real software problem requiring
recompilation and reloading of the HP print system. I did have a connector
problem but it was associated with the demonstration of Arpanet conducted
in 1974 or 1975 from Sao Paulo, Brazil.




On Thu, Apr 30, 2026 at 11:06 PM Dave Crocker via Internet-history <
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> On 4/30/2026 4:55 PM, vinton cerf wrote:
> > To add to Dave's story
>
>
> Since MCI Mail wound up being relevant to Internet history, when Vint
> used MMDF to interconnect with Internet mail, I'll add to his addition.
>
> MCI Mail was built using a collection of vendors for different parts of
> the system. (HP had the remote laster printers.)
>
> Six months before the scheduled public demo was the first meeting, with
> all the vendors in the same room.
>
> Vint got up to greet everyone and set the stage.  He said we did not
> have much time but we were going to meet the September deadline.  Then
> he said that if anything stopped us -- not that it would, but if it did
> -- it would be a connector.
>
> As I recall, that middle-of-the-night-before-the-demo problem that Vint
> described turned out to be a connector.
>
> d/
>
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