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From: Clem Cole <clemc@ccc.com>
To: Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com>
Cc: TUHS main list <tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org>, Paul Ruizendaal <pnr@planet.nl>
Subject: Re: [TUHS] Origins of PPP
Date: Thu, 5 Dec 2019 16:03:20 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAC20D2MZZYxKx+gMavG-TiA8q_a0S5_kExnVo3vdfLRdVuw43A@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CANCZdfo0BZODmF8fZFJ1=UGw2a2OEF=Y7Fu9unR6XbQGXnnG7g@mail.gmail.com>

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On Thu, Dec 5, 2019 at 2:41 PM Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com> wrote:

>
>
> On Thu, Dec 5, 2019 at 9:40 AM Clem Cole <clemc@ccc.com> wrote:
>
>> The original SLIP 'kit' from Harvard/MIT lacked anything like PPPD to
>> start and was sort of ad hoc.
>>
>
> ...

> It was hit dinosaur over head with club level of sophistication, if it was
> that advanced...
>
Right, as I said -- pretty ad hoc.

I note the CMU code, has an if_sl.c edit tag.  Which makes sense that it
goes back to the original SLIP code.

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  reply	other threads:[~2019-12-05 21:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-12-05 10:34 Paul Ruizendaal
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 [this message]
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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