Re: TCP adoption in 1984
Bob Purvy via Internet-history <[email protected]>
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"Sun announced 10Mb Ethernet product on 4/15/83; SunOS 1.0, based on 4.2BSD Beta, formally shipped in November of 1983. There were also some sizeable 3Mb Ethernet sites before that. *So, lots of TCP over Ethernet,* " does that follow? was Sun running TCP then? On Sat, May 2, 2026 at 4:05 PM Tom Lyon <[email protected]> wrote: > Sun announced 10Mb Ethernet product on 4/15/83; SunOS 1.0, based on > 4.2BSD Beta, formally shipped in November of 1983. There were also some > sizeable 3Mb Ethernet sites before that. > So, lots of TCP over Ethernet, but who knows how many were actually on the > Arpanet? > BTW, I recall there was plenty of TCP over 10Mb Ethernet even before the > ARP protocol came out. > > On Sat, May 2, 2026 at 3:26 PM Bob Purvy via Internet-history < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> 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 >> -- >> Internet-history mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://elists.isoc.org/mailman/listinfo/internet-history >> - >> Unsubscribe: >> https://app.smartsheet.com/b/form/9b6ef0621638436ab0a9b23cb0668b0b?The%20list%20to%20be%20unsubscribed%20from=Internet-history >> > -- Internet-history mailing list [email protected] https://elists.isoc.org/mailman/listinfo/internet-history - Unsubscribe: https://app.smartsheet.com/b/form/9b6ef0621638436ab0a9b23cb0668b0b?The%20list%20to%20be%20unsubscribed%20from=Internet-history