fuzzball: n. [TCP/IP hackers] A DEC LSI-11 running a particular
suite of homebrewed software written by Dave Mills and assorted
co-conspirators, used in the early 1980s for Internet protocol
testbedding and experimentation. These were used as NSFnet backbone
sites in its early 56kb-line days; a few were still active on the
Internet as late as mid-1993, doing odd jobs such as network time
service.
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