Notes on the Network Working Group meeting, Urbana, Illinois, February 17, 1971
Rob Watson · 1971
Mike Sher opened by welcoming the group to Urbana and briefly indicated that ILLIAC IV was expected to be running this summer.The ILLIAC IV Project has been split into two projects; one on basic system hardware and software, and the other on applications.Their IMP is not yet connected to their PDP-11.Steve Crocker asked for topics to be discussed at this meeting; these are indicated below.Peggy Karp of Mitre has been summarizing the old RFC's.She has a list of about 30 topics and is summarizing their present status.She expects to finish around the end of February.See RFC #100, NIC(5761).It was suggested that someone write an RFC indicating which ones are obsolete.It was also suggested that the Network Information Center (NIC) help sites in organizing their hardcopy material.There then followed brief discussions of experiences in using the Network.John Melvin (SRI-ARC) summarized SRI's experience in using the Utah PDP-10 to help in SRI's transfer from an XDS 940 to a PDP-10.In April-May 1970 it was clear that SRI was headed toward a PDP-10 in order to have the capacity and reliability to fulfill their role as the Network Information Center.They had had some previous experience in connecting with Utah, and so it seemed logical to try to use the Utah 10 to aid the transfer.In June use of the Network began.SRI uses higher level languages extensively, so the first task was to transfer the compilercompiler Tree Meta.Source code was generated on the 940 to run on the PDP-10.Binaries were then transmitted to Utah and run and debugged.Patches were performed where possible, and source changes accumulated.A new source and binaries would then be made periodically.