From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on inbox.vuxu.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=MAILING_LIST_MULTI autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 Received: (qmail 5943 invoked from network); 17 Jul 2022 23:40:22 -0000 Received: from minnie.tuhs.org (50.116.15.146) by inbox.vuxu.org with ESMTPUTF8; 17 Jul 2022 23:40:22 -0000 Received: from minnie.tuhs.org (localhost [IPv6:::1]) by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AB8DE40124; Mon, 18 Jul 2022 09:40:14 +1000 (AEST) Received: from mercury.lcs.mit.edu (mercury.lcs.mit.edu [18.26.0.122]) by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id F24D54001D for ; Mon, 18 Jul 2022 09:40:00 +1000 (AEST) Received: by mercury.lcs.mit.edu (Postfix, from userid 11178) id E5C6018C09B; Sun, 17 Jul 2022 19:39:59 -0400 (EDT) To: tuhs@tuhs.org Message-Id: <20220717233959.E5C6018C09B@mercury.lcs.mit.edu> Date: Sun, 17 Jul 2022 19:39:59 -0400 (EDT) From: jnc@mercury.lcs.mit.edu (Noel Chiappa) Message-ID-Hash: FUCUPT3B654SVDVE3NGWNVYHZV2FQWAD X-Message-ID-Hash: FUCUPT3B654SVDVE3NGWNVYHZV2FQWAD X-MailFrom: jnc@mercury.lcs.mit.edu X-Mailman-Rule-Misses: dmarc-mitigation; no-senders; approved; emergency; loop; banned-address; member-moderation; header-match-tuhs.tuhs.org-0; nonmember-moderation; administrivia; implicit-dest; max-recipients; max-size; news-moderation; no-subject; digests; suspicious-header CC: jnc@mercury.lcs.mit.edu X-Mailman-Version: 3.3.6b1 Precedence: list Subject: [TUHS] Re: Unix V8 Chaosnet, any takers? List-Id: The Unix Heritage Society mailing list Archived-At: List-Archive: List-Help: List-Owner: List-Post: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: > From: Warner Losh >> What's "net unix" anyway? > I'm referring to the University of Illinois distribution Ah, OK. > I have seen references to it in the ARPAnet census documents running on > both V6 and V7 (though mostly they were silent about which version). Well, V7 came out in January, 1979, and NCP wasn't turned off until January, 1983, so people had a lot of time to get it running under V7. > I thought this was the normal nomenclature of the time, but I may be > mistaken. I'm not sure what it was usually called; we didn't have much contact with it at MIT (although I had the source; I'm the one that provided it to TUHS). The problem was that although MIT had two IMPs, all the ports on them were spoken for, for big time-sharing mainframes (4 PDP-10's running ITS; 1 running TWENEX; a Multics), so there were no ports available to plug in a lowly PDP-11. (We were unable to get an IP gateway (router) onto the ARPANET until MIT got some of the first C/30 IMPs.) So we had no use for the NCP Unix (which I vaguely recall was described as 'the ARPANET Unix from UIll'). Noel