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

[John Day]

Yes, Miles, you are right a lot of the same people were involved, but 
Noel is right as well.

As the 70s wore on, and those who had been hands-on participants in 
the ARPANET and done great things tended to move toward management 
and less direct involvement.

At 7:53 AM -0400 4/12/13, Miles Fidelman wrote:
>>On 4/11/2013 11:58 PM, Noel Chiappa wrote:
>>
>>>First off, please be careful to distinguish between _ARPANET_ development
>>>(both hosts and switches) and _Internet_ development. Totally separate
>>>efforts, mostly different people, etc, etc.
>
>Well I'm not sure about the "different people part."  I do seem to 
>recall that Kahn and Cerf were both ARPANET program managers before 
>their TCP/IP work - and an awful lot of folks in this discussion 
>were involved in both.
>>
>>Please forgive me for that--the difference is indeed important. 
>>However, as a non-combatant (nor participant, if you rather) in the 
>>flow of history I think of one leading to the other and I'm not 
>>sure even now, where the tic on the time-line belongs.
>Might want to start here:
>http://www.zakon.org/robert/internet/timeline/
>http://www.computerhistory.org/internet_history/
>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Internet
>
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