On Sat, 2007-03-03 at 14:00 +0200, Markku Kolkka wrote: > 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. Thanks for the heads up, I stand corrected. :) Ric -- ================================================ My father, Victor Moore (Vic) used to say: "There are two Great Sins in the world... ..the Sin of Ignorance, and the Sin of Stupidity. Only the former may be overcome." R.I.P. Dad. Linux user# 44256 Sign up at: http://counter.li.org/ http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/oar http://www.wayward4now.net ================================================
