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The Interface Message Processor (IMP) was the packet switching node used to interconnect participant networks to the ARPANET from the late 1960s to 1989. It was the first generation of gateways, which are known today as routers. An IMP was a ruggedized Honeywell DDP-516 minicomputer with special-purpose interfaces and software. In later years the IMPs were made from the non-ruggedized Honeywell 316 which could handle two-thirds of the communication traffic at approximately one-half the cost. An IMP requires the connection to a host computer via a special bit-serial interface, defined in BBN Report 1822. The IMP software and the ARPA network communications protocol running on the IMPs was discussed in RFC 1, the first of a series of standardization documents published by what later became the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF). Wikipedia →
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- Read the overview: Interface Message ProcessorA 5-minute orientation
- Skim a recent paper: Distributed Aerial Image Stitching on Multiple Processors using Message Passing InterfaceInfluential work since 2022
- Pick up a classic book: Modern Operating SystemsThe most-reprinted book on the subject
- Read the landmark paper: An optical interface message processor for fiber communication networksCited 2 times
- Go sideways: ARPANETA closely related topic
- Go sideways: End-to-end principleA closely related topic
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đź“š Books worth reading
Modern Operating SystemsAndrew S. Tanenbaum, Herbert Bos · 1992
Using MPIWilliam Gropp, Ewing Lusk · 1994
Home recording for musicians for dummiesJeff Strong · 2005
Hands-on networking with Internet technologiesDouglas E. Comer, Douglas E Comer · 2002
Parallel Programming in C with MPI and OpenMPMichael J. Quinn · 2003
Digital planetGeorge Beekman, Ben Beekman · 2011
Raspberry Pi CookbookSimon Monk · 2014
Discovering Computers 2018Misty E. Vermaat, Susan Sebok · 2017
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