Re: TCP adoption in 1984
Adam Sampson via Internet-history <[email protected]>
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Noel Chiappa via Internet-history <[email protected]> writes: > Xerox gave a large donation of Altos and associated gear (most notably > 'Dover' laser printers) to MIT, Stanford and CMU; these all used only the 3MB > Ethernet. (I have been looking online for an original document which says > when this happened, but I can't find one. Some sources say it happened in > 1978 , but it might have dribbled over into early 1979.) It looks like late 1979 for SAIL. From Les Earnest's files: > SYSTEM MEETING 7 March 1979 > ... > Xerox: Xerox is offering the Computer Science Department a Dover > (high speed, high resolution XGP-like printer), an Ethernet, > and some number of Altos - LES. > SYSTEM MEETING 11 July 1979 > ... > Dover: Should arrive Sept.-Oct. Comes with 16-18 Altos & file server. > SYSTEM MEETING 6 September 1979 > ... > Dover: Due Oct. https://www.saildart.org/SYSTEM.MTG[D,LES]52 (There are quite a few other references to the Dover, Altos and Ethernet under LES, so it's probably worth a grep through there...) -- Adam Sampson <[email protected]> <http://offog.org/> -- 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