* [TUHS] Article on BSD, etc history @ 2024-02-18 14:12 Rich Salz 2024-02-19 20:03 ` [TUHS] " Åke Nordin 0 siblings, 1 reply; 4+ messages in thread From: Rich Salz @ 2024-02-18 14:12 UTC (permalink / raw) To: The Eunuchs Hysterical Society [-- Attachment #1: Type: text/plain, Size: 64 bytes --] https://www.abortretry.fail/p/the-berkley-software-distribution [-- Attachment #2: Type: text/html, Size: 164 bytes --] ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 4+ messages in thread
* [TUHS] Re: Article on BSD, etc history 2024-02-18 14:12 [TUHS] Article on BSD, etc history Rich Salz @ 2024-02-19 20:03 ` Åke Nordin 2024-02-19 20:22 ` segaloco via TUHS 2024-02-19 20:35 ` Warner Losh 0 siblings, 2 replies; 4+ messages in thread From: Åke Nordin @ 2024-02-19 20:03 UTC (permalink / raw) To: Rich Salz, The Eunuchs Hysterical Society On 2024-02-18 15:12, Rich Salz wrote: > https://www.abortretry.fail/p/the-berkley-software-distribution Thanks, appreciated. Good read, seemingly fair balance between comprehensiveness and accessibility, no falsehoods that were obvious to me (but then I never had much insight). -- Åke Nordin <ake.nordin@netia.se>, resident Net/Lunix/telecom geek. Netia Data AB, Stockholm SWEDEN *46*7O466Ol99# ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 4+ messages in thread
* [TUHS] Re: Article on BSD, etc history 2024-02-19 20:03 ` [TUHS] " Åke Nordin @ 2024-02-19 20:22 ` segaloco via TUHS 2024-02-19 20:35 ` Warner Losh 1 sibling, 0 replies; 4+ messages in thread From: segaloco via TUHS @ 2024-02-19 20:22 UTC (permalink / raw) To: Åke Nordin; +Cc: The Eunuchs Hysterical Society On Monday, February 19th, 2024 at 12:03 PM, Åke Nordin <ake.nordin@netia.se> wrote: > On 2024-02-18 15:12, Rich Salz wrote: > > > https://www.abortretry.fail/p/the-berkley-software-distribution > > > Thanks, appreciated. > > Good read, seemingly fair balance between comprehensiveness and accessibility, no falsehoods that were obvious to me (but then I never had much insight). > > -- > Åke Nordin ake.nordin@netia.se, resident Net/Lunix/telecom geek. > > Netia Data AB, Stockholm SWEDEN 467O466Ol99# From the article: > Eventually, Standiford reached out to Thompson, and Thompson > would connect to the University’s 11/45 over a three hundred > baud acoustic coupler to remotely debug crash dumps from New > Jersey. I personally like to imagine that it was a Novation > CAT 300, but I haven’t been able to find a model number of > the modem, and I haven’t found any reference to what system > Thompson was actually using. Plus, the Novation CAT 300 > wouldn’t be released for several years." I find this curious and wonder if Ken or someone else would have commentary on what sort of modem connection was actually in use? When I read that, my mind immediately went to the 300-baud WECo Data Set I've been experimenting with lately, I would imagine Bell Laboratories researchers had access to the cream-of-the-crop modem technologies coming out of WECo, or perhaps even experimental designs not yet mass-produced by WECo. Just the speculation my mind went to though. I know in later Bell System advertising and other visual content it is all too common to see the smaller Data Set units with their 6-button *500-series phones neatly nestled in next to whatever terminal was in use. Then going back further, you had the large Data Set units that mounted up inside the teletype frame. I seem to recall Clem Cole mentioning to me that the specifics of utilizing modems with terminals at the time were a little odd potentially due to rules on who could run wire for what in buildings, leading to modems being used where a serial connection would make more sense or vice versa but as with many things, I wasn't there and can't speak to specifics. - Matt G. ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 4+ messages in thread
* [TUHS] Re: Article on BSD, etc history 2024-02-19 20:03 ` [TUHS] " Åke Nordin 2024-02-19 20:22 ` segaloco via TUHS @ 2024-02-19 20:35 ` Warner Losh 1 sibling, 0 replies; 4+ messages in thread From: Warner Losh @ 2024-02-19 20:35 UTC (permalink / raw) To: Åke Nordin; +Cc: The Eunuchs Hysterical Society [-- Attachment #1: Type: text/plain, Size: 549 bytes --] On Mon, Feb 19, 2024 at 1:04 PM Åke Nordin <ake.nordin@netia.se> wrote: > On 2024-02-18 15:12, Rich Salz wrote: > > https://www.abortretry.fail/p/the-berkley-software-distribution > > Thanks, appreciated. > > Good read, seemingly fair balance between comprehensiveness and > accessibility, no falsehoods that were obvious to me (but then I never had > much insight). > I really enjoyed the read as well... I sent the author a few corrections, clarifications and additional data that he may roll into an updated version. Warner [-- Attachment #2: Type: text/html, Size: 1015 bytes --] ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 4+ messages in thread
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