5 Dec
2017
5 Dec
'17
7:56 a.m.
This was looooong before Cliff Stoll. I worked at LBL for 14 years, in
the Computer Science & Applied Math (CSAM) group. Don't remember the
exact dates this was happening, but something like late 60s - early
70s. I remember discussing with Dennis Hall the report back to DARPA
that emphasized no value for data transfer but high value for
communications. (Unfortunately, Dennis is gone now.) We even had a
"demonstration" for DARPA. However, the nodes we needed in a couple
places weren't in those places yet, so we "simulated" a response by
having something in, say, San Francisco receive an internet request,
read it with their eyes, then type in a response. ;-) At least DARPA
folks were told this was a simulation.
Deborah
On 12/4/17 5:38 PM, Jon Forrest wrote:
On 12/4/2017 5:05 PM, Noel Chiappa wrote:
I'm also skeptical about this claim, although it could depend on
what "initial research" means. I believe LBL did work on early TCP
implementations, the conversion from NCP to TCP, and the early "software
tools" movement. (I was there for a year in 1988 and had the office next
to Cliff Stoll when he was doing the Cookoo's Egg work, but that's
another story).
Jon
From:
Deborah Scherrer
the initial research on the arpanet was done at
Lawrence
Berkeley Lab