Subject: Re: Help!
To: Jochen Kunz <jkunz@unixag-kl.fh-kl.de>
From: Johnny Billquist <bqt@update.uu.se>
List: port-vax
Date: 03/07/2001 15:43:38
On Wed, 7 Mar 101, Jochen Kunz wrote:
[...]
> > 7. Could a VAX in 1994 be hooked up to the Internet?
> Ahhh, the Internet was developed on VAXen! OK, the TCP/IP protocoll what
> is the bais of the Internet was mainly developed on VAXen using BSD UNIX.
> And back that time BSD UNIX was developed on VAXen. Therefore the close
> relationship between VAXen, BSD UNIX and TCP/IP networking.
Have to disagree with you here. Unix was a latecomer in TCP/IP. Try
PDP-10 for an earlier machine...
But later day TCP/IP development was indeed done on VAXen running BSD.
Early Unix networking means uucp. :-)
Johnny
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