Terminal Interface Processor - Revision history

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A bit stubby, but a good start

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A '''Terminal Interface Processor''' ('''TIP''', for short) was a customized [[Interface Message Processor|IMP]] variant added to the [[ARPANET]] not too long after it was initially deployed. In addition to all the usual IMP functionality (including connection of [[host]] computers to the ARPANET), they also provided groups of [[serial line]]s to which could be attached [[terminal]]s, which allowed [[user]]s at the terminals access to the hosts attached to the ARPANET.

They were built on [[Honeywell 316]] [[minicomputer]]s, a later and un-ruggedized variant of the [[Honeywell 516]] minicomputers used in the original IMPs. They used the [[Telnet|TELNET]] [[protocol]], running on top of [[Network Control Program|NCP]].

It was in fact possible to connect other [[peripheral|devices]], ones which interfaced through a seral line, to a TIP; for instance, on the 5th floor of [[Technology Square]], there was a [[printer|line printer]] hooked up to the MIT TIP. The MIT [[Multics]] [[time-sharing]] machine had [[spooler]] software which could print on that, using the ARPANET to get to it.

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==Further reading==

* S.M. Ornstein, F.E. Heart, W.R. Crowther, H. K. Rising, S. B. Russell and A. Michel, [https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/1478873.1478906 The terminal IMP for the ARPA computer network], Proceedings AFIPS, 1972 SJCC, Vol. 40, pp. 243–254.



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 ==External links==
-* [http://www.bitsavers.org/pdf/bbn/tip/ADA014398_Users_Guide_to_the_Terminal_IMP_Aug75.pdf Terminal Interface Message Processor: User's Guide to the Terminal IMP] (BBN Report No. 2183; NIC-10916)
+* [http://www.bitsavers.org/pdf/bbn/tip/ADA014398_Users_Guide_to_the_Terminal_IMP_Aug75.pdf Terminal Interface Message Processor: User's Guide to the Terminal IMP] (BBN Report No. 2183; NIC-10916) <!-- https://apps.dtic.mil/sti/tr/pdf/ADA014398.pdf -->
 * [https://apps.dtic.mil/sti/pdfs/ADA099936.pdf Pluribus TIP Users' Guide] (BBN Report No. 4135)
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 * [http://www.bitsavers.org/pdf/bbn/tip/ADA014398_Users_Guide_to_the_Terminal_IMP_Aug75.pdf Terminal Interface Message Processor: User's Guide to the Terminal IMP] (BBN Report No. 2183; NIC-10916)
-* [https://apps.dtic.mil/sti/pdfs/ADA099936.pdf Pluribus TIP Users' Guide]
+* [https://apps.dtic.mil/sti/pdfs/ADA099936.pdf Pluribus TIP Users' Guide] (BBN Report No. 4135)
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 ==External links==
 * [https://apps.dtic.mil/sti/pdfs/ADA099936.pdf Pluribus TIP Users' Guide]
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 A '''Terminal Interface Processor''' ('''TIP''', for short) was a customized [[Interface Message Processor|IMP]] variant added to the [[ARPANET]] not too long after it was initially deployed. In addition to all the usual IMP functionality (including connection of [[host]] computers to the ARPANET), they also provided groups of [[serial line]]s to which could be attached [[terminal]]s, which allowed [[user]]s at the terminals access to the hosts attached to the ARPANET.
-They were built on [[Honeywell 316]] [[minicomputer]]s, a later and un-ruggedized variant of the [[Honeywell 516]] minicomputers used in the original IMPs. They used the [[Telnet|TELNET]] [[protocol]], running on top of [[Network Control Program (ARPANET)|NCP]].
+They were built on [[Honeywell 316]] [[minicomputer]]s, a later and un-ruggedized variant of the [[Honeywell 516]] minicomputers used in the original IMPs. They used the [[Telnet|TELNET]] [[protocol]], running on top of [[Network Control Protocol|NCP]].
 It was in fact possible to connect other [[peripheral|devices]], ones which interfaced through a seral line, to a TIP; for instance, on the 5th floor of [[Technology Square]], there was a [[printer|line printer]] hooked up to the MIT TIP. The MIT [[Multics]] [[time-sharing]] machine had [[spooler]] software which could print on that, using the ARPANET to get to it.

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 ==Further reading==
-* S.M. Ornstein, F.E. Heart, W.R. Crowther, H. K. Rising, S. B. Russell and A. Michel, [https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/1478873.1478906 The terminal IMP for the ARPA computer network], Proceedings AFIPS, 1972 SJCC, Vol. 40, pp. 243–254.
+* S.M. Ornstein, F.E. Heart, W.R. Crowther, H. K. Rising, S. B. Russell and A. Michel, [https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/1478873.1478906 The terminal IMP for the ARPA computer network], Proceedings [[American Federation of Information Processing Societies|AFIPS]], 1972 SJCC, Vol. 40, pp. 243–254
 ==External links==

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		+	* [[ANTS terminal system]]

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