[ih] What is the origin of the root account?

Miles Fidelman mfidelman at meetinghouse.net
Fri Apr 12 04:45:17 PDT 2013


Noel Chiappa wrote:
> The very earliest Internet development was done, AFAIK, on PDP-11/40's
> (running ELF, I think?), PDP-10's running TENEX, Jim Mathis' MOS stuff from
> SRI - LSI-11's (only), I think? (I think MOS ran on other kinds of 11 too,
> I'd have to go check the source; but IIRC Jim's focus was LSI-11's.)

Hey... don't forget ITS!


Miles

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