> I'm not trying to say sockets were 'right' -But that in context, if you > came from a tops-10 world, or a VMS world (mailbox I/O..) that they > were certainly no more awful than things you'd had to do, and compared > to eg /dev/tty (which WAS the network for many people) were > considerably better.
Someone once commented that the socket interface was a lot like the tops-10 interfaces for things. A collection of such techniques and methods is what I'm calling a culture. People from the tops-10 influenced VMS who influenced WindowsNT (or implemented it). Tops-10 started at BBN. TCP was, as Dr. Ritchie points out, started at BBN and was filtered into BSD. The CTSS and Multics influenced the culture of of Unix. > > Stallmans gnu manifesto emerged at around the same time. I remember > getting both the AT&T getopt and this manifesto off UUCP news at leeds > at broadly contemporay times. Somewhere I should still have my getopt card from the 1981 (I think) Usenix. Which culture produced the 10,000 line manual page for the C compiler? The whole V6 C Reference Manual was only 2,500 lines.
