Re: Retro networking / WAN communities

[Paul Koning via cctalk]

> 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