There is a nice article on Growklaw which describes the very early days of Unix. Denice Richie, Ken Thompson, etc.
http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20050414215646742
One thing caught by eye; about 1/2 way through there is a listing of the original 20 or so nodes of the internet and guess who is there?
The U of Manitoba! (along with 3 other Canadian universities).
A fascinating read for anyone interested in the birth of the modern Internet and Unix.
John Lange
John Lange wrote:
One thing caught by eye; about 1/2 way through there is a listing of the original 20 or so nodes of the internet and guess who is there?
The U of Manitoba! (along with 3 other Canadian universities).
John,
Thanks for the URL. That list which includes U of M was a 1975 Unix mailing list not a list of Internet nodes. The U of M did not become an Internet node until 89-90.
Gilbert were you at the U of M in 75? I think Computer Science ran Unix on a PDP in the early days.
-- Bill
75 pre-dates both Gilbert and myself, I believe but there certainly was a PDP 11/45 here in the late 70's. I'm not sure what whether the original 11/45 was around in 75. Might just have been someone who was interested but didn't have hardware yet. Gilbert, do you know if Doug was active with Unix at that time?
Peter
According to Bill Reid:
John Lange wrote:
One thing caught by eye; about 1/2 way through there is a listing of the original 20 or so nodes of the internet and guess who is there?
The U of Manitoba! (along with 3 other Canadian universities).
John,
Thanks for the URL. That list which includes U of M was a 1975 Unix mailing list not a list of Internet nodes. The U of M did not become an Internet node until 89-90.
Gilbert were you at the U of M in 75? I think Computer Science ran Unix on a PDP in the early days.
-- Bill _______________________________________________ Roundtable mailing list Roundtable@muug.mb.ca http://www.muug.mb.ca/mailman/listinfo/roundtable
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