> From: Deborah Scherrer
> the initial research on the arpanet was done at Lawrence Berkeley Lab
I was interested to find out more about this: I looked in Hafner, "Where
Wizards Stay Up Late" (the popular, but well-researched, book on the ARPANET)
but couldn't find 'Lawrence Berkeley' or 'LBL' in the index (although it did
have Lawrence Livermore); there were a couple of 'Californa, University of (at
Berkeley' listings, but none covered this. In Abbate, "Inventing the Internet"
(the first half of which covers the ARPANET), nothing under any of 'Lawrence
Berkeley', 'LBL', 'Berkeley' or 'California'.
In Norberg/O'Neill, "Transforming Computer Technology" (the standard ARPA
history, which has extensive coverage of the ARPANET project), there was one
entry for 'Californa, University (Berkeley)', which might be about the work
you refer to:
"IPTO issued a contract for a 'network' project at the Berkeley campus of
the University of California ... because of the presence at Berkeley of
specialists in programming languages and heuristic programming".
But there's nothing about what was produced. Is there anything you can point
me at that provides more detail? Thanks!
Noel
> From: Dave Horsfall
> The ARPAnet reached four nodes on this day in 1969 (anyone know which?)
SRI, UCSD, UCLA, Utah:
http://www.chiappa.net/~jnc/tech/arpageo.html
All West Coast, plus Utah. Next was BBN; if you look at the IMP numbers, in
HOSTS.TXT, they were assigned in order of installation.
> at least one "history" site reckoned the third node was connected in
> 1977 ... Well, I can believe that perhaps there were only three left by
> then...
No:
http://www.chiappa.net/~jnc/tech/arpalog.html
1977 was not too many years before the peak in size (with the MILNET split
coming in October, 1983). Per:
http://www.chiappa.net/~jnc/tech/arpanet.html
"Prior to the split, in 1983, there were 113 IMPs in the ARPANET; after the
ARPANET/MILNET split, the MILNET consisted of 65 nodes, leaving the ARPANET
with 68 nodes."
Noel
