1983
From NCP to TCP/IP
It was January 1 when ARPANET officially switched from the old Network Control Protocol to TCP/IP. All ARPANET users had to switch from NCP to TCP/IP. The protocol that reigned the ARPANET was finally mothballed. From now on the machines could only communicate with the new protocol on the network.
Some hosts who didn’t perform the changeover yet, explained their reasons to Postel or his colleague Dan Lynch or Bob Kahn, who governed the restructuring process. Usually these hosts were offered a grace period. However, the changeover had to be completed until spring or the machines were kicked off the network without further warning.
Some hosts who didn’t perform the changeover yet, explained their reasons to Postel or his colleague Dan Lynch or Bob Kahn, who governed the restructuring process. Usually these hosts were offered a grace period. However, the changeover had to be completed until spring or the machines were kicked off the network without further warning.
This transition to TCP/IP was probably the most important event for the development of the internet for the next years. After the installation of the new protocols the network could freely expand. Due to TCP/IP, file transmission from one network into another became a cakewalk. Now there were so many networks communicating with each other, so Postel tried to put some order in it. He published a RFC, where all networks received an assigned number.
1983
Net
Facts
Facts
CSNET already counts 70 members.
1983
Other
Events
Events
Peak of bomb terror in Lebanon, especially against US military. PLO leader Arafat has to leave the country after massive defeats.
The German magazine STERN publishes the lost believed diaries of Adolf Hitler, which turn out to be fakes a little later.
The computer mouse is invented (Apple LISA) and IBM’s XT is the first PC to have a built in disk memory of 10 MByte.
On November 28 COLUMBIA transports the European Skylab with a crew of six into space.