[ih] Failures of the early Internet

[Greg Skinner]

On Jan 23, 2024, at 8:24 AM, Craig Partridge via Internet-history <internet-history at elists.isoc.org> wrote:
> 
> The Div 6 VAX Unix project evolved over time and people and ran into the
> late 1980s.  It was typically a one-person project and, at the end, I was
> its supervisor.  As I recall, the progression of people working on it was
> Dennis Rockwell, Bob Walsh, Karen Lam and then David Waitzman.  Again,
> relying on memory, Bob and Dennis worked on evolving Gurwitz's BBN 4BSD
> code, porting it to 4.1 and 4.2 BSD. Recall the Berkeley 4.1c/4.2 TCP was a
> rewrite of the BBN 4.1 TCP code by Bill Joy -- exactly to what degree Bill
> Joy did his own thing and how much he relied on the BBN code is
> occasionally debated, but I do know as late as 1988, Berkeley would defend
> a bug in the BSD TCP code by pointing out it originated in the BBN code, so
> obviously Bill referred to the BBN code.  In any case, DARPA continued to
> support the BBN version for a few years after 4.2BSD came out -- and, if
> memory serves, BBN licensed its version to some of the rising desktop
> server vendors (e.g. Apollo).
> 
> I believe Karen worked primarily on enhancing the BSD 4.2/4.3 TCP, but I
> could be wrong.  I know David worked closely with Steve Deering to enhance
> 4.3 BSD to support multicast.
> 
> I am probably getting some details wrong.
> 
> Craig
> 

According to this post from the tcp-ip list, Karen Lam took over from Bob Walsh when he went to grad school.

https://groups.google.com/g/fa.tcp-ip/c/OC4cSjInGCU/m/gPezcfARzFkJ

—gregbo