Network Control Program (ARPANET): Difference between revisions

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It was almost universally referred to by the acronym, NCP. This was later taken over to refer to the [[protocol stack|protocol suite]] itself.<ref name="NCPReuse1">{{Cite web|url=http://www.postel.org/ien/pdf/ien011.pdf|title=Internetting or Beyond NCP|access-date=2022-08-04}}</ref><ref name="NCPReuse2">{{Cite web|url=https://www.rfc-editor.org/ien/ien18.pdf|title=Proposed Revisions to the TCP|access-date=2022-08-04}}</ref>

NCP's were written for many [[operating system]]s, including [[Multics]], [[TENEX (operating system)|TENEX]], [[Unix|UNIX]] and [[TOPS-10]], and many of those NCP's survive (although of course they are now only used by vintage computer enthusiasts).

==External links==

* [[https://gunkies.org/wiki/Network_Control_Program_(ARPANET) Network Control Program] - NCP details at the Computer History Wiki

* [https://minnie.tuhs.org/cgi-bin/utree.pl?file=SRI-NOSC SRI-NOSC] - complete V6 UNIX NCP source

** [https://minnie.tuhs.org/cgi-bin/utree.pl?file=SRI-NOSC/doc/IllinoisNCP.nr Illinois NCP Documentation]

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