[Info-vax] Reading Gordon Bell's VAX strategy document

[Rich Alderson]

Neil Rieck <n.rieck at bell.net> writes:

> But for me, DEC's hatred for C, UNIX and TCPIP was just plain stupid since
> 16-bit PDP and 32-bit VAX were responsible for creating ARPAnet.

> https://neilrieck.net/links/cool_computer.html#internet

> Working on a VAX, once Bill Joy had rewritten all the new libraries in C,
> they raced from university to university.

A great deal of the work on the ARPANET and early Internet was done on PDP-10
family computers running BBN's TENEX, DEC's TOPS-20 (a TENEX derivative),
Stanford AI Lab's WAITS (a Tops-10 derivative), and MIT AI Lab's ITS.

The 16 bit computers used as routers on the ARPANET were Honeywell products,
not DEC.

Unix(TM) did not get TCP/IP until the 1980s, a dozen years after the ARPANET
began, and several years after TCP/IP was defined.  The standards were hosted
on a PDP-10 at SRI, and model implementations were generally done on PDP-10s.

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