[Info-vax] RMS internals?

[Stefaan A Eeckels]

On Mon, 10 Aug 2009 18:32:56 +0000 (UTC)
glen herrmannsfeldt <gah at ugcs.caltech.edu> wrote:

> For my original comment, I was thinking that the ftp program
> was separate from the underlying TCP/IP system, but maybe that
> isn't true.  I believe I used multinet about 20 years ago, but
> not since then.  

FTP predates TCP/IP by quite a number of years. It is first described in
RFC 114 from 1971. In 1973, after many an RFC, the TCP protocol was
essentially as we know it now - but running on top of NCP and not
TCP/IP (which dates from 1980).

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Stefaan A Eeckels
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