Re: 30th Anniversary of RFC 1

[Aron Insinga <ainsinga@infomation.com>]

Someone forwarded to me a message from a mailing list, and I couldn't help but send the author a correction, and a semi-related memory.

- Aron



Date: Thu, 08 Apr 1999 07:17:21 -0400
To: peter@ENG.US.UU.NET
From: Aron Insinga <ainsinga@infomation.com>
Subject: Re: 30th Anniversary of RFC 1

It's Steve Crocker, not Steve Corckett.

His brother Dave, author of RFCs himself, and I crossed paths at the U. of Delaware.  Coming from UC Irvine with Dave Farber, Dave Crocker had the first Honda car [vs. motorcycle] we'd ever heard of.  I recall him being astonished to drive down a road with fields of cows on both sides at once, and being concerned that his car might not make it up the hills when we got snow.  [The hills in Delaware aren't very big at all.]

Anyway, thanks for the note.

- Aron

...
At 06:17 PM 4/7/99 -0700, you wrote:
>Date: Tue, 6 Apr 1999 08:00:22 -0400
>From: "Peter H. Salus" <peter@ENG.US.UU.NET>
>Reply-To: "CYHIST  Community Memory: Discussion list on the History of
>             Cyberspace" <CYHIST@MAELSTROM.STJOHNS.EDU>
>To: CYHIST@MAELSTROM.STJOHNS.EDU
>Subject: Re: [CM>] Arpanet history
>
>______________________________________________________________________
> Community Memory: Discussion List on the History of Cyberspace
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>
>Talking about ARPANET history!  Tomorrow
>(Wednesday, 7 April 1999) is the 30th
>anniversary of Steve Crockett's RFC 1,
>``Host Software.''
>
>Among other things, RFC 1 allocated
>5 bits for addressing.
>
>Peter
>
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