[ih] History of the TCP/UDP port space

[Craig Partridge]

In message <20060124134827.5AAC1872E3 at mercury.lcs.mit.edu>, Noel Chiappa writes
:

>I'm not really sure what (if any) the influences on sockets were. I have this
>vague memory that they looked more like the TWENEX interface than anything
>else, but that could easily be incorrect...

The VAX BBN implementation used /dev/tcp with ioctls to open sockets (an idea
Bell Labs reinvented 10 years or so later).  It was also the first
implementation to use mbufs.

The innards were wildly different from the BSD TCP and, indeed, from the
PDP-11 (and TOPS-20) implementations at BBN.

Craig