From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: brantley@coraid.com (Brantley Coile)
Date: Sat, 15 Oct 2005 09:57:49 -0400
Subject: [TUHS] Ancient unixes
Message-ID: <01b907ad0f646a3551b1b76472f03640@coraid.com>

this name `internet' name space was considered and rejected.  it's
harder than one would think to get details right for all networks, the
addess is only a small part of the information needed for the
connection, and keeping a name space for all the internet updated
would be very hard.  instead they use a network!machine!port syntax
with the dial command.

you can follow the full development of those ideas in the following papers.


http://cm.bell-labs.com/cm/who/dmr/spe.html
http://cm.bell-labs.com/sys/doc/net/net.html

remember.  seventh edition was relase in 1977.
Jimmy Carter was president, ``Anne Hall'' won best
picture, and the Chevy Nova was a big hit.