From: imp@bsdimp.com (Warner Losh)
Subject: [TUHS] BSD/v8 TCP/IP (was Shell control through external commands)
Date: Sun, 11 Sep 2016 23:24:47 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CANCZdfpUicqxu-x-3AFo-h+0X-Grfje-74Kd0Ht0J60Q-zBxhw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160912044432.GA74856@eureka.lemis.com>
On Sun, Sep 11, 2016 at 10:44 PM, Greg 'groggy' Lehey <grog at lemis.com> wrote:
> On Sunday, 11 September 2016 at 21:31:10 -0400, Norman Wilson wrote:
>>
>> -- Adopt 4.1c BSD kernel
>> ...
>>
>> I don't think the BSD kernel when adopted had much, if any,
>> of sockets, Berkeley's TCP/IP, McKusick's FFS; if it did,
>> they were excised.
>>
>> ...
>>
>> TCP/IP support didn't show up until later, I think summer 1985,
>> though it might have been a year later.
>
> I'm confused. 4.1c has gone down in history as the first version with
> Internet code, and looking at the sources (from mckusick's CD set), I
> see the network files in /sys/netinet with names very reminiscent of
> current FreeBSD file names. The files have timestamps between
> November 1982 and May 1983. Why should they have been removed? I
> would have thought that exactly this functionality would have been the
> reason why you adopted 4.1c.
>
> Similarly, it also included FFS and (not surprisingly sockets.
>
> I checked further back, but unfortunately the previous version on the
> CDs is 4.1a, and it has no kernel code.
I don't think they are talking about BSD4.1a having these things, but
rather Research Unix Edition 8 having these things. Bell labs didn't
integrate them until later. I recall reading articles at the time (1983
or 1984) that they had their own notion of what networking to use
that wasn't TCP/IP due to some perceived failings of TCP/IP that
they fixed with their stuff. I recall that I read it in the library in
high school. Wish I'd forgotten that and recalled what the network
protocol was they implemented instead...
Warner
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-09-12 5:24 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-09-12 1:31 [TUHS] Shell control through external commands Norman Wilson
2016-09-12 4:44 ` [TUHS] BSD/v8 TCP/IP (was Shell control through external commands) Greg 'groggy' Lehey
2016-09-12 5:24 ` Warner Losh [this message]
2016-09-12 5:38 ` Cory Smelosky
2016-09-12 5:48 ` Erik E. Fair
2016-09-12 9:22 ` Joerg Schilling
2016-09-12 10:25 ` Brantley Coile
2016-09-12 11:00 ` Joerg Schilling
2016-09-12 11:16 ` Brantley Coile
2016-09-12 11:42 ` Brantley Coile
2016-09-12 11:42 ` Joerg Schilling
2016-09-12 7:20 ` Greg 'groggy' Lehey
2016-09-12 18:32 ` Clem Cole
2016-09-13 10:52 ` Tony Finch
2016-09-13 12:54 ` Clem Cole
2016-09-12 9:33 ` [TUHS] Shell control through external commands Joerg Schilling
2016-09-12 12:56 [TUHS] BSD/v8 TCP/IP (was Shell control through external commands) Norman Wilson
2016-09-12 15:27 ` Joerg Schilling
2016-09-12 15:41 Norman Wilson
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