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From: schily@schily.net (Joerg Schilling)
Subject: [TUHS] BSD/v8 TCP/IP
Date: Mon, 12 Sep 2016 22:42:08 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <57d71320.AhWuYhd/6WC7l8Eu%schily@schily.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201609122016.u8CKGKiA040696@tahoe.cs.Dartmouth.EDU>

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Doug McIlroy <doug at cs.dartmouth.edu> wrote:

> Dennis described streams in the special Unix issue of the
> BSTJ, Oct 1984, and noted that "it runs on about 20 machines in
> ... Research ... Although it is being investigated in other
> parts of AT&T Bell Laboratories, it is not generally available."
> The manuscript was received October 18, 1983.

Interesting, but then nobody did run a modern shell on one of these machines or 
everybody did type slowly, so the character lossage problem did not occur.


Jörg

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2016-09-12 20:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-09-12 20:16 Doug McIlroy
2016-09-12 20:27 ` Larry McVoy
2016-09-12 20:36   ` Lyndon Nerenberg
2016-09-12 20:42 ` Joerg Schilling [this message]
2016-09-12 21:39 Doug McIlroy
2016-09-12 21:48 ` Dave Horsfall
2016-09-12 21:53 ` Joerg Schilling
2016-09-12 23:49   ` Dan Cross
2016-09-13  9:16     ` Joerg Schilling
2016-09-13  1:52 ` Lyndon Nerenberg
2016-09-13  2:37   ` Larry McVoy
2016-09-13  8:12     ` Brantley Coile
2016-09-13  9:29     ` Joerg Schilling
2016-09-13 14:35       ` Larry McVoy

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