Ric Moore kirjoitti viestissään (lähetysaika perjantai, 2. maaliskuuta 2007): > On Thu, 2007-03-01 at 21:26 -0700, Craig White wrote: > > IMP (Internet Messaging Program) - reasonable acronym > > Sure it's reasonable to folks who don't feel like ole Irv > deserves anything. Why not? He's dead anyways. Right? He sure > couldn't complain. The first use of acronym IMP in computer communications was the Interface Message Processor, the packet switch for early Arpanet: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interface_Message_Processor http://www.livinginternet.com/i/ii_imp.htm First IMPs went on-line late 1969, 4 years before the first version of CP/M booted. Irv Hoff deserves the credit for his communication program, but not for the TLA he re-used as its name. -- Markku Kolkka markku.kolkka@xxxxxx
