On Wed, Oct 07, 1998 at 12:49:14PM -0400, Bob Munck wrote:
> In fact, I don't recall seeing Unix involved in ARPANET or
> the early Internet much at all. Most hosts were Tenex or
> various Univac or IBM mainframes, and of course the IMPs
> were Honeywell. The first Unix involvement was when the
> Internet assimilated Usenet, and even that was pretty much
> the replacement of the UUCP base with FTP and other file
> transfers.
The first Unix involvement with the Internet was when DARPA commissioned
the CSRG at Berkeley to make TCP/IP a viable protocol; this led to the
divergence of the BSD Unix source tree from the AT&T Research Unix source
tree, and to the use of Vaxen and PDP-11's running BSD Unix for Arpanet
connectivity. This predates the Internet's assimilation of Usenet by
most of a decade.
Was Multics superior? Maybe. But the people who wrote Unix were keenly
aware of Multics and clearly made informed decisions on what to borrow
and what to leave out. Those are some of the same people who wrote Plan 9
and now Inferno -- which I think is superior to Unix -- and it remains
to be seen if one of these later creations will achieve the same success.
---Rsk
Rich Kulawiec
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