original packet-switching papers

[Kragen]

The original packetswitching papers are at
<URL:http://www.rand.org/publications/RM/baran.list.html>.  Excerpt:

   This Memorandum is one in a series of eleven RAND Memoranda detailing
   the Distributed Adaptive Message Block Network, a proposed digital
   data communications system based on a distributed network concept.

Copyright 1964.

These are the papers that originated the concepts of packet-switching
and automatic routing in the face of node failures, the concepts that
are behind today's Internet.

Kragen

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