On Fri, Jan 17, 2020 at 5:33 PM Paul Ruizendaal <pnr@planet.nl> wrote:

>
> Rich was kind enough to look through the Joyce papers to see if it
> contained "CSRG Tech Report 4: Proposals for Unix on the VAX”. It did.
>
> As list regulars will know I’ve been looking for that paper for years as
> it documents the early ideas for networking and IPC in what was to become
> 4.2BSD.
>
> It is an intriguing paper that discusses a network API that is imo fairly
> different from what ended up being in 4.1a and 4.2BSD. It confirms Kirk
> McKusick’s recollection that the select statement was modelled after the
> ADA select statement. It also confirms Clem Cole’s recollection that the
> initial ideas for 4.2BSB were significantly influenced by the ideas of
> Richard Rashid (Aleph/Accent/Mach).
>
> Besides IPC and networking, it also discusses file systems and a wide
> array of potential improvements in various other areas.
>

Awesome! Is that something that will be scanned in so we can all see it?

Warner