From: Paul Ruizendaal <pnr@planet.nl>
To: TUHS main list <tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org>
Subject: [TUHS] Origins of PPP
Date: Thu, 5 Dec 2019 11:34:48 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <698E9378-80A6-48F2-8B46-389B4A90ECD9@planet.nl> (raw)
I’m looking for the origins of SLIP and PPP on Unix. Both seem to have been developed long before their RFC’s appeared.
As far as I can tell, SLIP originally appeared in 3COM’s UNET for the PDP11, around 1980. From the TUHS Unix tree, first appearance in BSD seems to be 4.3 (1986).
Not sure when PPP first appeared, but the linux man page for pppd has a credit that goes back to Carnegie Mellon 1984. First appearance in BSD seems to be FreeBSD 5.3 (2004), which seems improbably late (same source).
Paul
next reply other threads:[~2019-12-05 10:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-12-05 10:34 Paul Ruizendaal [this message]
2019-12-05 10:58 ` Michael Kjörling
2019-12-05 15:50 ` Richard Salz
2019-12-05 16:39 ` Clem Cole
2019-12-05 19:41 ` Warner Losh
2019-12-05 21:03 ` Clem Cole
2019-12-05 23:09 ` Doug McIntyre
2019-12-06 2:05 ` Lawrence Stewart
2019-12-06 18:31 ` Warner Losh
2019-12-05 19:05 Noel Chiappa
2019-12-05 19:21 ` ron
2019-12-05 19:37 ` Warner Losh
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