[time-nuts] Re: Manual for Precision Standard Time PST-1030 WWV Receiver?

[Erik E. Fair]

One correction to my previous email: not "second NTP server", but "second Unix-based NTP server" on the Internet. The first was bitsy.mit.edu in Jeff Schiller's office, which was also, IIRC, the primary MIT Kerberos (cryptographic authentication) server for MIT Project Athena. The Kerberos protocol has time bounds on the validity of its keys & tokens, so good time is an important support service.

All the rest of the stratum 1 NTP servers on the Internet in 1989 were Dave Mills' Fuzzball systems, former backbone routers for the first NSFNET backbone.

	Erik Fair