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[ih] What is the origin of the root account?
- Subject: [ih] What is the origin of the root account?
- From: mfidelman at meetinghouse.net (Miles Fidelman)
- Date: Fri, 12 Apr 2013 07:45:17 -0400
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Noel Chiappa wrote:
> The very earliest Internet development was done, AFAIK, on PDP-11/40's
> (running ELF, I think?), PDP-10's running TENEX, Jim Mathis' MOS stuff from
> SRI - LSI-11's (only), I think? (I think MOS ran on other kinds of 11 too,
> I'd have to go check the source; but IIRC Jim's focus was LSI-11's.)
Hey... don't forget ITS!
Miles
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