Network Control Program (usually given as NCP) was the name for the software on
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which implemented the
Network Control Protocol of the
ARPANET
The Advanced Research Projects Agency Network (ARPANET) was the first wide-area packet-switched network with distributed control and one of the first networks to implement the TCP/IP protocol suite. Both technologies became the technical fou ...
.
It was almost universally referred to by the acronym, NCP. This was later taken over to refer to the
protocol suite
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itself.
NCP's were written for many
operating system
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Time-sharing operating systems schedule tasks for efficient use of the system and may also in ...
s, including
Multics
Multics ("Multiplexed Information and Computing Service") is an influential early time-sharing operating system based on the concept of a single-level memory.Dennis M. Ritchie, "The Evolution of the Unix Time-sharing System", Communications of t ...
,
TENEX,
UNIX
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and
TOPS-10
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, and many of those NCP's survive (although of course they are now only used by vintage computer enthusiasts).
References
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ARPANET
External links
Network Control Program- NCP details at the Computer History Wiki
SRI-NOSC- complete V6 UNIX NCP source
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Illinois NCP Documentation