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

[Lars Brinkhoff]

Rich Alderson wrote:
> Neil Rieck wrote:
>> 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.
>
> A great deal of the work on the ARPANET and early Internet was done on
> PDP-10 family computers
>
> Unix(TM) did not get TCP/IP until the 1980s, a dozen years after the
> ARPANET began

To this I'd like to add, first there were a few PDP-11s running Unix
with the NCP protocol on the pre-TCP ARPANET.  E.g. University of
Illinois and RAND.  Second, VAX computers weren't even around when
ARPANET got started.  In fact, were there any at all on the ARPANET
before the 1983 flag day?