[Info-vax] Reading Gordon Bell's VAX strategy document

[Johnny Billquist]

On 2023-09-28 21:43, Dan Cross wrote:
> In article <uf3m7s$lv$4 at news.misty.com>,
> Johnny Billquist  <bqt at softjar.se> wrote:
>> And at some point after that,
>> all of ARPANET because just the 10.* addresses on the Internet, and then
>> ARPANET was turned off, and it was decided that 10.* should not exist on
>> the Internet anymore...
> 
> What you wrote above is certainly true, but given that the
> ARPANET was the original Internet backbone and that the initial
> TCP work for VAX Unix was being done at BBN, it's not
> unreasonable to believe that they did an NCP implementation for
> the VAX before TCP/IP proper.  Of course, that's speculation (I
> have no evidence) but it's not unreasonable.

Very definitely possible. And it's probably even possible to find 
concrete information if you dig through the old RFCs. I know there are 
ones which are just listing machines and OSes that are capable to 
interoperate on the ARPANET. But I've read through them so many times I 
don't care to do it again right now. :-)

   Johnny