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prior to the 1-1-83 conversion to internetworking protocol ... the arpanet was much more of a traditional, homogeneous networking setup ... that had IMPs as the interface to the arpanet ... and hosts using host protocol to talk to the IMPs (and the IMPs talked to the network).
when amdahl was starting his mainframe clone company in the early 70s, he gave a talk at mit. he was asked about how he got venture funding. he said something about his business plan...
one of my buttertions about the internal network being larger than the arpanet-internet for just about the whole period until approx. mid-85 was that the internal network had effectively a gateway type functioin in most of the nodes from the beginning
... which the arpanet-internet didn't get until the 1-1-83 conversion.
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there was also bitnet-csnet which used similar technology to that used in the internal network ... but was used for an academic network. this academic network (separate from the internal network using similar technology) was compareable in size to the internet in the early to mid 80s.
misc. postings related to interop '88
and stuff on NSFNET-1 backbone from the late '80s ... which is much more the deployment and operational infrastructure for the foundation of what was to become the "internet" that emerged in the early 90s.
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