IMP
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... To high speed nets on Friday.
And old slow IMP, a costly link,
Codes to fix the lines that stink,
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... Well frankly, it meant trouble, 'specially since no specs were set.
For you see the interface between the nascent IMP and HOST
Was a confidential secret from us folks on the West coast.
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... Was a confidential secret from us folks on the West coast.
BBN had promised that the IMP was running late.
We welcomed any slippage in the deadly scheduled date.
But one day after Labor Day, it was plopped down at our gate!
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... With a message first misunderstood
But despite dangers lurking
The IMP's were soon working
And ARPA did see it was good.
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... So in place of our early myopia
We now have a net cornucopia
With IMP's, TIP's, and LAN's
Wideband VAN's, MAN ...