From: "Michael Kjörling" <michael@kjorling.se>
To: tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org
Subject: Re: [TUHS] Origins of PPP
Date: Thu, 5 Dec 2019 10:58:38 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <wckspzwzq37dgjjgz9vfjgfz@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <698E9378-80A6-48F2-8B46-389B4A90ECD9@planet.nl>
On 5 Dec 2019 11:34 +0100, from pnr@planet.nl (Paul Ruizendaal):
> Not sure when PPP first appeared, but the linux man page for pppd
> has a credit that goes back to Carnegie Mellon 1984. First
> appearance in BSD seems to be FreeBSD 5.3 (2004), which seems
> improbably late (same source).
The FreeBSD man page archive indicates that client-side (user) PPP
goes back at least to 2.0.5-RELEASE.
It's there in 2.0.5-RELEASE at
<https://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=ppp&apropos=0&sektion=8&manpath=FreeBSD+2.0.5-RELEASE&arch=default&format=html>
It isn't there in 2.0-RELEASE at
<https://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=ppp&apropos=0&sektion=8&manpath=FreeBSD+2.0-RELEASE&arch=default&format=html>
However, 2.0-RELEASE has pppd at
<https://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=pppd&sektion=8&apropos=0&manpath=FreeBSD+2.0-RELEASE>
Even FreeBSD 1.0-RELEASE has pppd at
<https://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=pppd&apropos=0&sektion=8&manpath=FreeBSD+1.0-RELEASE&arch=default&format=html>
The 1.0-RELEASE man page for pppd references documents as recent as
May 1992, which agrees fairly well with Wikipedia which gives the
release date for FreeBSD 1 as November 1993.
Certainly a lot earlier than 2004.
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Michael Kjörling • https://michael.kjorling.se • michael@kjorling.se
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-12-05 11:07 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 [this message]
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
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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