From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.2 (2018-09-13) on inbox.vuxu.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.8 required=5.0 tests=HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS, MAILING_LIST_MULTI,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.2 Received: from minnie.tuhs.org (minnie.tuhs.org [45.79.103.53]) by inbox.vuxu.org (OpenSMTPD) with ESMTP id 00e46d75 for ; Thu, 5 Dec 2019 11:07:07 +0000 (UTC) Received: by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix, from userid 112) id 08B309C606; Thu, 5 Dec 2019 21:07:06 +1000 (AEST) Received: from minnie.tuhs.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7168194B55; Thu, 5 Dec 2019 21:06:45 +1000 (AEST) Received: by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix, from userid 112) id 57B4894B55; Thu, 5 Dec 2019 21:06:42 +1000 (AEST) X-Greylist: delayed 478 seconds by postgrey-1.36 at minnie.tuhs.org; Thu, 05 Dec 2019 21:06:41 AEST Received: from ste-pvt-msa1.bahnhof.se (ste-pvt-msa1.bahnhof.se [213.80.101.70]) by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 9CCC794A16 for ; Thu, 5 Dec 2019 21:06:41 +1000 (AEST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ste-pvt-msa1.bahnhof.se (Postfix) with ESMTP id CE6823F6D0 for ; Thu, 5 Dec 2019 11:58:41 +0100 (CET) X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at bahnhof.se Received: from ste-pvt-msa1.bahnhof.se ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (ste-pvt-msa1.bahnhof.se [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 8hYUO4z44SGf for ; Thu, 5 Dec 2019 11:58:40 +0100 (CET) Received: from localhost (unknown [85.24.253.25]) (Authenticated sender: mc616801) by ste-pvt-msa1.bahnhof.se (Postfix) with ESMTPA id C55393F6BD for ; Thu, 5 Dec 2019 11:58:40 +0100 (CET) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by localhost (Postfix) with ESMTPS id C7BF52E02DE for ; Thu, 5 Dec 2019 11:58:39 +0100 (CET) Date: Thu, 5 Dec 2019 10:58:38 +0000 From: Michael =?utf-8?B?S2rDtnJsaW5n?= To: tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org Message-ID: References: <698E9378-80A6-48F2-8B46-389B4A90ECD9@planet.nl> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <698E9378-80A6-48F2-8B46-389B4A90ECD9@planet.nl> Subject: Re: [TUHS] Origins of PPP X-BeenThere: tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.26 Precedence: list List-Id: The Unix Heritage Society mailing list List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: tuhs-bounces@minnie.tuhs.org Sender: "TUHS" 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 It isn't there in 2.0-RELEASE at However, 2.0-RELEASE has pppd at Even FreeBSD 1.0-RELEASE has pppd at 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. -- Michael Kjörling • https://michael.kjorling.se • michael@kjorling.se “Remember when, on the Internet, nobody cared that you were a dog?”