1. Where Wizards Stay Up Late
Control to the design of the network was the idea that the subnet of IMP's should operate invisibly. ... But when an IMP was installed at BBN in the early spring of 1970, suddenly there was a way to ship data and status reports electronically from the west coast IMPs directly back to BBN. ... One of the NCC's tasks was to issue software upgrades and related IMP operating programs when necessary. ... The 3 percent downtime that amazed Honeywell was in BBN's words, "prolonged hardware failure syndrome." ... Within six months, BBN and Honeywell completed the design and construction...
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- Approx Pages: 12
- Grade Level: High School