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

[Dan Cross]

In article <7w5y3wjepw.fsf at junk.nocrew.org>,
Lars Brinkhoff  <lars.spam at nocrew.org> wrote:
>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?

Almost certainly.  The initial TCP/IP implementation work for
Unix was being done at BBN at the time, and I imagine that meant
VAXen connected to ARPANET.

	- Dan C.