[RndTbl] The early days of Unix

Bill Reid billreid at shaw.ca
Sun Apr 17 11:36:40 CDT 2005


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


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