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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 [email protected] 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 -- Thank you; Henry R. Linneweh 408-258-3485
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