[ih] The UCLA 360/91 on the ARPAnet/Internet

[jeanjour at comcast.net (John Day)]

Right, we put the first Unix up on the 'Net on a PDP-11/45 in the 
summer of 75.  Its IPC was terrible (and still is).  We shoehorned 
NCP into the kernel and Telnet as an application in the first 
version.  Then went back to fix the IPC.

John


At 17:58 -0700 2012/05/12, Dave Crocker wrote:
>On 5/12/2012 2:42 PM, Vint Cerf wrote:
>>Steve Crocker led the group that developed the
>>Sigma-7 Experiment Timesharing system. We called it SEX and the most
>>popular document among the geeks was the SEX Users Manual....
>
>
>Cycling back to the topic of Arpa's wanting to share resources, when 
>we tried to get funding for 32K more memory for the system, Arpa 
>instead said we should get a PDP-11 and use one of the terminal 
>concentrator systems (ANTS from Illinois or ELF from Santa Barbara) 
>and do remote computing.
>
>The concentrator systems weren't up to snuff, but Unix was coming 
>available on PDP-11s and we got that.
>
>So Arpa took away our Sex and gave us Unix.
>
>Our original superuser password was, of course, eunuchs.
>
>d/
>--
>  Dave Crocker
>  Brandenburg InternetWorking
>  bbiw.net