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

[Johnny Billquist]

On 2023-09-27 15:09, Dan Cross wrote:
> 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.

Well, before flag day, ARPANET wasn't speaking TCP/IP...

   Johnny