EC285 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Arpanet
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A host is a computing device that is connected to a network (typically to a lan and/or the. As originally conceived, a host was a computer that was hosting some service that other computers on the network made use of, such as a computer used as a repository for files. It is still used in this sense, particularly in the context of computers providing email and web services, but the term server has partially superseded it. Suggestion that gateway and router differ in meaning in some places and are more or less synonymous in others: Networks are connected to other networks via gateways or routers -specialized computers that route packets of information from one network to the next . Wiki on arpanet: says that the devices that served this purpose were originally called. Interface message processors (or imps), similar to the later concept of routers, that functioned as gateways .
