Hmm. I always thought the unix tip command was a reference to tip and ring of phone line pairs. This sounds more likely... Something for Peter Salus...
--Dean
Around 12:36 PM 10/19/1999 -0700, rumor has it that hardie@equinix.com said:
i think TIP stood for Terminal Interface Processor, and IMP stood for
Interface Message Processor.
Some nifty stuff from the old days
http://www.pasteur.fr/infosci/RFC/3xx/352
http://www.catalog.com/hopkins/arpanet/index-large.html
Henry Yen wrote: