[ih] propagation of early email?

[Bill Ricker]

> > Unix was developing pretty much in parallel with the ARPANET.
>
So I think the ARPANET was a tiny bit in advance of Unix, maybe a year or
> so,
> but not very much.
>

Depending which toddler first steps one considers comparable, that seems
fair; but that is consistent with '"both were in development in mid-70's
and were really useful by the '80s and ubiquitous in the '90's"
reading of "pretty
much in parallel".

Probably everyone here knows Dennis Ritchie was at Project MAC MULTICS at
MIT as a Bell Labs person (and MAP's office-mate) until Bell Labs pulled
out of MULTICS leaving MIT, Honeywell to go it alone. He would have been
exposed to the incipient ARPAnet developments in the air there as well as
the structure of Multics, which latter is rather more obvious in
Unix's metaphorical DNA.

-- 
Bill
@n1vux bill.n1vux at gmail.com
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