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Entries from the annals of computing history, once every two weeks. (Actually, every four for the foreseeable future 😞).

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@TwoBitHistory
Mar 8, 2021
Another post published! Hope you find the ARPANET interesting, because it seems I'm doing a bit of a series on it. This latest post is a deeper dive into the ARPANET protocols and how they might have influenced TCP/IP.
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How the ARPANET Protocols Worked
An ascent through the four levels of the ARPANET protocol hierarchy.
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@TwoBitHistory
Feb 22, 2021
Something I'm curious about—how do people go about *reading* an unfamiliar codebase? Tool-wise, do you just use your regular editor or something else? I gave Sourcetrail a go (sourcetrail.com) but couldn't get it to work out of the box
Source Trail : Solving programming and code problems for programmers
From sourcetrail.com
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@TwoBitHistory
Feb 17, 2021
Thinking about getting an ACM membership just to have access to the digital library. I get hit with that paywall when trying to do research pretty often. Is an ACM membership worthwhile? I don't know enough about academic publishing to be sure
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@TwoBitHistory
Feb 10, 2021
The other neat source that I found for my ARPANET post was the scenario booklet used to demo the ARPANET at the 1972 ICCC. I mentioned four of the scenarios in the post but there are a bunch of other ones that I didn't find room to describe: archive.computerhistory.org/resources/acce…
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@TwoBitHistory
Feb 9, 2021
So a fun source that I found for my ARPANET post is from "Box 42" of the collected papers of Clay T. Whitehead, who served as the Director of the Office of Telecommunications Policy in the Nixon White House. This guy:
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Clay T. Whitehead - Wikipedia
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