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* [http://ana-3.lcs.mit.edu/~jnc/history/Mail_Protocol.txt MAIL] ([http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc772.txt here] is a much later proposal which eventually became [[SMTP]])
 
* [http://ana-3.lcs.mit.edu/~jnc/history/Mail_Protocol.txt MAIL] ([http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc772.txt here] is a much later proposal which eventually became [[SMTP]])
 
* [http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc742.txt NAME/FINGER]
 
* [http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc742.txt NAME/FINGER]
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==Further reading==
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* F.E. Heart, R.E. Kahn, S.M. Ornstein, W.R. Crowther, and D.C. Walden, "[http://www.walden-family.com/public/1970-imp-afips.pdf The interface message processor for the ARPA computer network]", Proceedings AFIPS, 1970 SJCC, Vol. 36, pp. 551-567.
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* J.M. McQuillan, W.R. Crowther, B.P. Cosell, D.C. Walden, and F.E. Heart, "[http://walden-family.com/impcode/1972-improvements-paper.pdf Improvements in the Design and Performance of the ARPA Network]", Proceedings AFIPS, 1972 FJCC, Vol. 40, pp. 741-754.
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* John M. McQuillan, David C. Walden, "[http://www.walden-family.com/public/whole-paper.pdf The ARPA Network Design Decisions]", in "Computer Networks", Vol. 1, No. 5, August 1977, pp. 243-289.
  
 
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** [http://www.chiappa.net/~jnc/tech/arpalog.html ARPANET Technical Information: Logical Maps]
 
** [http://www.chiappa.net/~jnc/tech/arpalog.html ARPANET Technical Information: Logical Maps]
 
** [http://www.chiappa.net/~jnc/tech/arpapkt.html ARPANET Technical Information: Packet Formats]
 
** [http://www.chiappa.net/~jnc/tech/arpapkt.html ARPANET Technical Information: Packet Formats]
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** [http://www.chiappa.net/~jnc/tech/arpaprot.html ARPANET Technical Information: ARPANET Protocol Handbook]
  
 
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Revision as of 15:40, 4 July 2020

The ARPANET was the first packet-based wide-area network; so called because it was initiated, and initially funded, by ARPA.

It consisted of minicomputers called Interface Message Processors ('IMPs', for short) running specialized packet switching code, joined together with synchronous serial lines; host computers were connected to the IMPs by special bit-serial interfaces (see below).

Protocols

The protocol family used on the early ARPANET included:

These two latter protocols formed the Network Control Program, which all the application protocols ran over.

Those included:

Further reading

External links