TCP adoption in 1984

Bob Purvy via Internet-history <[email protected]> Sat, 2 May 2026 15:26:15 -0700

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Grok's estimate is that about 900 hosts could be reached via TCP, at the
end of 1984. RFC 984 for TCP over Ethernet was in April of that year.

Were these *entirely* university and research machines? Were any of them
actually running TCP on Ethernet? Does anyone know"

Thanks,

Bob
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