[ih] Early Unix networking

[Dave Crocker]

On 10/10/2016 7:45 AM, Paul Ruizendaal wrote:
> For introduction: I'm a retro-computing hobbyist who's interested in the origins of networking in Unix (other than uucp).


Paul,

Your summary reads well.  And it defines a concrete and (IMO) entirely 
reasonable scope for what you probably mean with the above statement of 
intent.

However you might be interested in a slightly broader scope.

I suggest you consider email-based unix network access.  Although a much 
more constrained channel than a packet-level interface, this was a 
legitimate means of gaining Arpanet (and then Internet) access for a 
number of years, and greatly expanded the community of participants.[1]

To the extent you are interested in exploring this, then you'd have to 
include uucp, but also CSNet's Phonenet [2],[3].


d/


[1] To Be "On" the Internet; RFC 1775

[2] HISTORY AND OVERVIEW OF CSNET; 
https://www.internetsociety.org/sites/default/files/pdf/Comm83.pdf

[3] MMDF; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MMDF


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   Dave Crocker
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