From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: b4@gewt.net (Cory Smelosky) Date: Sun, 8 Nov 2015 00:20:27 -0800 (PST) Subject: [TUHS] System III - TCP/IP In-Reply-To: <20151108072230.GA8436@mercury.ccil.org> References: <20151107200358.Horde.M1lYZZyTC4t0Qb8KrygKzhy@avocado.salatschuessel.net> <20151107192043.GA11895@mcvoy.com> <1C0DB3B7-988D-435F-A590-6C0AB14249A3@gewt.net> <20151108071102.GA7290@mcvoy.com> <20151108072230.GA8436@mercury.ccil.org> Message-ID: On Sun, 8 Nov 2015, John Cowan wrote: > Larry McVoy scripsit: > >> he and I talked a bit about that - which was classic >> Dennis because I was nobody, fresh out of grad school porting a STREAMS >> based TCP/IP stack and I felt it was weird so I reached out to dmr and >> he of course replied in depth.) > > Bohr and Feynman at Los Alamos, to put it Star Trek-ly. > >> I think there were some cool parts, didn't the PWB and DWB >> come form System III? > > Vice versa. PWB began between the Sixth and Seventh Edition, but didn't > reach the Unix mainline (as it was then) until System III. There was a > second PWB release branched from the Seventh Edition. > >> Other than that, what's the System III attraction? > > I tend to agree: a thoroughly vanilla release. > What about SysV for PDP-11? ;D > > -- Cory Smelosky http://gewt.net Personal stuff http://gimme-sympathy.org Projects