> On Apr 12, 2022, at 1:20 PM, Grant Taylor via cctalk <cctalk@classiccmp.org> > wrote: > > On 4/12/22 10:11 AM, Wayne S wrote: >> Wiki says ethernet became commercially available in 1980 and invented in >> 1973. So if enet was 1980 what were routers routing 10 years earlier in 1970? > > I feel like IMPs were "routing" and could be considered "routers" long before > Ethernet was a thing. Exactly. For that matter, DECnet included routing before Ethernet came out (in Phase III, with DDCMP links). And Typeset-11 did routing before DECnet did, starting around 1977. I think the term used in the IMP days was "gateway" but by today's terminology they are routers. paul
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