Network Control Program (ARPANET)

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Network Control Program is the name for the software on the hosts attached to the ARPANET which implemented the protocol suite of the early ARPANET, Network Control Protocol as it later came to be called. (See here for more about the evolution of these names.) The term did not later, usually, include the applications (such as 'User Telnet').

Implementations

Operating System Status Site Machine
ITS Preserved MIT DEC PDP-10
WAITS Preserved SAIL DEC PDP-10
TENEX Preserved BBN and many more DEC PDP-10
TOPS-20 Preserved Many DEC PDP-10
Unix V6 Preserved University of Illinois initially; numerous others later DEC PDP-11
ELF Preserved Many. DEC PDP-11
RATS Preserved LLL DEC PDP-11
Preserved Hawaii BCC 500
SEX Lost UCLA SDS Sigma 7
OS/360  ? UCLA IBM System/360
CP/CMS  ? Lincoln Labs IBM System/360
TSS/360  ? NASA Ames IBM System/360
Multics Maybe MIT GE 645, Honeywell 6180
TOPS-10 Maybe Many DEC PDP-10
 ? London DEC PDP-9
RSX-11M DEC PDP-11
ANTS DEC PDP-11
4.1BSD BBN DEC VAX
VMS DEC VAX
APEX  ? Lincoln Labs TX-2
SCOPE  ? CDC 6600, 7600
POSIX In progress Emulation

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