Answer by Jon Custer for How fast was ARPANET?
From the IEEE Annals of the History of Computing 44(2) 8-19 (2022) titled Seeking High IMP Reliability in Maintenance of the 1970s ARPAnet on findsThe design called for a small computer called...
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When using a packet-switched protocol such as TCP/IP with John Nagle's flow-control algorithm, a system that has sent out a packet of data will hold off on sending further data for the channel until it...
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Does anyone know how long that message must have been taken to transmit, or an estimate at least?It's two characters, so even considering an inefficient protocol and slow lines (*1) will be...
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I've heard that the first time a message was sent through it was "lo" since the SDS 940 crashed before the full message of "login" was able to be sent through.However, I have been unable to find how...
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The Clinton White House first Administration in federal use of Internet transfer of Files.It operated at a speed of 56 kilobits per second transfer
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