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Used to route messages between [[ARPANET]] hosts.
Used to route messages between [[ARPANET]] hosts.
The IMP software was called [[NCP]], Network Control Program.  Since then, many other networking software were also called NCP; the modern equivalent would be network stack.


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Revision as of 08:57, 15 March 2018

BBN Interface Message Processor.

Used to route messages between ARPANET hosts.

The IMP software was called NCP, Network Control Program. Since then, many other networking software were also called NCP; the modern equivalent would be network stack.