[ih] Fwd: Some Berkeley Unix history - too many PHDs per packet

[Greg Skinner]

Forwarded for Barbara

> I will admit your response is confusing me.  My post only concerns what I think I remember as a  problem in getting BSD UNIX, in particular the source code. Nothing about getting something  we wanted to use on a hardware platform from one of the commercial vendors.  We needed the BSD source but got hung up.
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> barbara
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> On Friday, March 8, 2024 at 07:05:12 PM PST, Clem Cole <clemc at ccc.com> wrote: 
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> This is really a discussion for COFF not IH list but I’ll reply since it came up.  By the time if Sys v vendors could sell you a binary use license - DEC, IBM, Masscomp, Sun, HP, etc.  If you had purchased a 3B2 or 3B20 from ATT it came with a binary license. But ATT only sold source licenses and second to N cpu licenses.  
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> Coming back to the post.  FWIW I (via Tektronix) was 3Com’s first customer.  Somewhere in my archives is the shipping bag with the address label and the postal marking of the 32nd of December.  Bob had some sort requirement with his VCs that they ship before the end of the year. I got the tape a few days later so we could start to debug our VMS TCP stack we were writing.  
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> Sent from a handheld expect more typos than usual
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> *** More cuts -  Barbara
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