Some nifty stuff from the old days http://www.pasteur.fr/infosci/RFC/3xx/352 http://www.catalog.com/hopkins/arpanet/index-large.html Henry Yen wrote:
On Tue, Oct 19, 1999 at 06:35:25AM -0400, Dean Anderson wrote:
Hmm. I always thought the unix tip command was a reference to tip and ring of phone line pairs. This sounds more likely... Something for Peter Salus...
Around 12:36 PM 10/19/1999 -0700, rumor has it that hardie@equinix.com said:
TAC as in tacacs?
Yep. The original TACACS specification was in a BBN technical memo, CC-0045; RFC 1492 contains an informal specification of the extended version that Cisco implemented. The background section of RFC 1492 gives a bit of the history:
Background
There used to be a network called ARPANET. This network consisted of end nodes (hosts), routing nodes (IMPs) and links. There were (at least) two types of IMPs: those that connected dedicated lines only and those that could accept dial up lines. The latter were called "TIPs."
i think TIP stood for Terminal Interface Processor, and IMP stood for Interface Message Processor. -- Henry Yen Aegis Information Systems, Inc. Senior Systems Programmer Hicksville, New York
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