[ih] Early sockets discussion paper

Paul Ruizendaal pnr at planet.nl
Tue Nov 28 13:52:34 PST 2017


I'm hoping someone on this list can help me locating an ancient Berkeley report: "CSRG TR/4: Proposals for the Enhancement of Unix on the Vax" (1981)
This tech report probably contains the first draft of what would become the BSD sockets interface in the next two years.

A bit of background: to guide the development of 4.2BSD a Steering Committee was formed consisting of Bob Fabry, Bill Joy and Sam Leffler from UCB, Alan Nemeth and Rob Gurwitz from BBN, Dennis Ritchie from Bell Labs, Keith Lantz from Stanford, Rick Rashid from Carnegie-Mellon, Bert Halstead from MIT, Dan Lynch from ISI and Gerald J. Popek of UCLA. In the autumn of 1981 a discussion paper was circulated, to kick off committee discussions. I think the TR/4 report is that discussion document.

The TR/4 report does not seems to be in the Berkeley library, it is not in the CSRG archive, it is not in the (online public) DTIC archive and the folks on the Unix Heritage Society mailing list also don't appear to have it.

Anybody on this list who knows about a surviving copy?

Many thanks,

Paul





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