Jon Crowcroft:
> see
> http://www-mice.cs.ucl.ac.uk/multimedia/misc/tcp_ip/
> for a slightly incomplete archive of it all
> i couldn't find any other archive but if someone does have
> it, let me know and i'll delete mine and point at theirs...
Hopefully, there will be permanent URLs for those archives.
> so there used to be this single file we'd all FTP from ISI with
> the hosts.txt listing of name/addresses -
I recall that even in 1988, a.cs.uiuc.edu or uiucdcs (then a
VAX-11/750) did "gethostfromnic" once or twice a week.
PS: It is interesting to note that in 1986, a CISCO IP
gateway(1-4 way) that supports IP/TCP and V.35 cost $7950.
regards,
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