Interface Message ProcessorTeam (L to R): Truett Thatch, Bill
Bartell(Honeywell), DaveWalden,Jim Geisman, Robert Kahn,Frank
Heart, BenBarker, Marty Thrope, Will Crowther, Severo Ornstein. Not
pictured:BernieCosell.
The Interface Message Processor provided a system
independentinterface to the ARPANETthat could be used by any
computer system,thereby opening the Internet network architecture
from the verybeginning.
