[ih] Installed base momentum (was Re: Design choices in SMTP)

[Craig Partridge]

HI Scott:

Small nit.

DARPA funded Berkeley to port the BBN Unix to BSD -- and Bill Joy chose to
reimplement and develop sockets.  Much behind the scenes fighting ensued (I
was hired into that fight in 1983 when BBN concluded it needed to train
someone to understand the BSD implementation).  Led to various odd
conversations years later -- I remember Van Jacobson justifying a TCP bug
in the BSD implementation by saying it had been in the BBN implementation
that Bill used as a reference -- c. 1989, long after BBN BSD TCP was gone.

Craig

On Mon, Feb 13, 2023 at 12:50 PM Scott Bradner via Internet-history <
internet-history at elists.isoc.org> wrote:

> for what its worth - here is my take on some of the reasons that the
> Internet (and specifically
> TCP/IP) took over the world
>
> Forks: Decisions that got us the Internet we have
> https://www.sobco.com/presentations/2020-06-25-forks.pdf
>
> Scott
> (I, along with Scott Shackelford, have a book on the subject that should
> be published at some
> point - the text is done & now in publisher wait)
> --
> Internet-history mailing list
> Internet-history at elists.isoc.org
> https://elists.isoc.org/mailman/listinfo/internet-history
>


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