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The so-called '''TCP and IP bake offs''' were a series of early interoperability tests of initial implementations of the [[Transmission Control Protocol|TCP]] and [[Internet Protocol|IP]] [[protocol]]s.

==Implementation demonstration==

Four prototype implementations of TCP/IP were tested for mutual interoperability at an 'implementation demonstration' held as part of a [[TCP and Internet Meetings|internet meeting]] held at [[ARPA]] (the testing, in the afternoon, was actually performed at [[DCEC]]) on 4 December, 1978. This was likely the very earliest attempt to get different TCP implementations to connect to each other. They were:

* [[Terminal Interface Unit]] for the [[LSI-11]] from [[SRI International|SRI]] in [[MACRO-11]] 
* [[UNIX Sixth Edition]] for the [[PDP-11]] from [[Bolt, Beranek, and Newman|BBN]] in [[C programming language|C]]
* [[OS/360|OS/MVT]] for the [[IBM System/360|IBM 360]] from [[UCLA]]
* [[Multics]] for the [[Honeywell 6000 series|Heneywell 68/80]] from the [[MIT Laboratory for Computer Science|LCS]]

==ISI bake off==

6 prototype implementations of TCP/IP were tested at a 'TCP Bake Off' held at [[Information Sciences Institute|ISI]] on 27-28 January, 1979. They were the four above, and:

* UNIX Sixth Edition from BBN in Macro-11 (itself a [[software port|port]] of the TIU implementation, above)
* [[TENEX]] for the [[PDP-10]] from BBN

==External links==

* [https://www.rfc-editor.org/ien/scanned/ien70.pdf Internet Meeting Notes - 4 December 1978] (IEN-70)
* [https://www.rfc-editor.org/ien/ien77.pdf TCP Meeting Notes - 29 January 1979] (IEN-777)
* [https://www.rfc-editor.org/ien/ien69.pdf TCP Meeting Notes - 18&19 September 1978] (IEN 69) - has entries for the implementations listed above
* [https://www.rfc-editor.org/ien/ien98.txt TCP Implementation Status] (IEN 98) - additional information on the implementations listed above
* [https://lists.ding.net/othersite/isoc-internet-history/2013/apr/msg00097.html Another TCP Reference Implementation] - one participant's notes/recollections
* [https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc1025 TCP and IP Bake Off] (RFC-1025)

[[Category: TCP/IP Protocols]]