Just paid attention to the title and I said to myself: XT is a pretty old
machine, why someone wants to clone that these days? :-)

Tamas



On 18 June 2014 23:01, William "Chops" Westfield <westfw@mac.com> wrote:

> On Jun 16, 2014, at 12:11 AM, RussellMc wrote:
>
> > In 1983, the ARPANET was split with U.S. military sites on their own
> > Military Network (MILNET <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MILNET>) for
> > unclassified defense department communications.
>
> In theory, you still needed a DARPA contract/connection to use the
> non-MilNet side of things.
> But the (internet) technology was a lot better at relaying packets around
> than anything was at preventing such relaying, and so a university or
> company with valid ARPANet access "somewhere" frequently somehow managed =
to
> propagate access (at least via eMail) quite widely.  Of course, LAN
> technology was practically non-existent, and TCP/IP didn't run on much of
> anything much smaller than a VAX780, so most early "access" was low-speed
> dialup from a dumb terminal to a timesharing mainframe of some kind.
>
> The earliest online fingerprint I can find of myself is from 1979.
>
> I generally count the beginning of "The Internet as we know it now" as
> coinciding with the release of Windows-95.  That was the first time a
> consumer PC came with networking software installed and ready to use.  Yo=
u
> could add TCP/IP to both Macs and PCs long before that (back to DOS days,
> when your ethernet card cost more than todays laptops), but it meant
> tracking down TCP from here, web browser from there, and a lot of effort =
to
> put it all together.
>
> BillW
>
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