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

[Miles Fidelman]

Bernie Cosell wrote:
> On 11 Apr 2013 at 19:44, Larry Sheldon wrote:
>
>> For sure I think Unix was a major component of the early layers of the
>> snowball that is The Internet--but I thought the initial development was
>> done on IBMish and special purpose hardware--did the IMP's have an OS?
>> And don't VAXen speak VMS (everyone I ever met did).
> Oh boy, are you going to get a lot of replies to this.  In the sense that
> you're using the term, the IMP did *not* have an OS.  It was a
> special-purpose real-time system that acted as the switching nodes for
> the ARPAnet and the interface for the Host systems.
>
> One of the early plans was to get as many *DIFFERENT* Host systems
> connected up to the ARPAnet and, of course, talking to one another.  I
> think the Sigma-7 at UCLA talking to SAIL at Stanford.  I think the only
> IBM system on the early net was a 360/67 at Rand (??).   MIT had ITS and
> Multics.  BBN had all sorts of systems: BSD's, TENEX's, assorted PDP-11
> systems.  Even the PDP-1 Exec III was an ARPAnet host..:o)
>
> The VAXen on the early network were running BSD [Unix].   When did
> someone build a TCP/IP stack for VMS?

Hey Bernie!

According to http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc801.txt (NCP/TCP Transition 
Plan) - dated 1981
- Gary Grossman @ DTI had a VAX/VMS implementation
- Bob Braden had UCLA's "360 or 370" talking TCP/IP under OS/MVS and OS/MVT




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