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[Jan Whitaker]

At 05:52 PM 26/03/2009, Carl Makin wrote:
>Our network guys were also for TCP/IP but the government was still
>enamoured with GOSIP and DECNET was claimed to be moving towards GOSIP
>compliance.

I remember the first time I heard of TCP/IP. I was on a grants panel 
for the National Science Foundation in Princeton, New Jersey. The 
applicants that asked for TCP/IP conversion or support in their 
projects got the funds. This was in the early 90s, probably like 91 
or 92. I remember the IT manager from Stanford giving us a quick 
course in the upcoming protocol and how important it was. Oh, and it 
was also the era of universities wanting mass spectrometers and gas 
chromatographs. Those are the analysis devices you see in all the 
forensic shows now, where they spit out the nice compound analysis graphs. :-)

Jan



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