On 29/10/2019, Murray McCullough via cctalk <cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote (in part): > The first inter-computer communication happened 50 years ago today. L. > Kleinrock part of that historic moment, said, and I paraphrase here, > ARPANET was the instrument that was to enable computers to talk to each > other remotely. He sent “LO” because the system crashed(how surprising was > that!)
According to "Where Wizards stay up late", the FEP crashed because of an "optimization" that stuffed "gin" into the buffer faster than the FEP could handle it. N.
