[ih] What is the origin of the root account?

[vint at google.com (Vint Cerf)]

Bob Kahn was at MIT faculty then BBN and joined ARPA in late 1972 after
managing the ARPANET demonstration at ICCC 92 in Washington, DC. I joined
Stanford as an assistant professor in later 1972 after 5 years at UCLA
working on MS/Ph.D. in computer science. I joined bob at arpa in mid1976.
Bob never managed the ARPANET project but was a key architect of the IMP
while at BBN. and initiated the Internet project at ARPA in early 1973.

The earliest TCP implementations were at Stanford in BCPL for a PDP11/20
written in 1975 by Richard Karp and on the PDP-10 running under TENEX by
Bill Plummer and Ray Tomlinson. A third was written at UCL in 1975 on a
PDP-9 in Peter Kirstein's lab (don't recall the name of the programmer
there... peter higginson? andrew hinchley? christopher bennett? ...

vint



On Fri, Apr 12, 2013 at 11:05 AM, Craig Partridge <craig at aland.bbn.com>wrote:

> >     > an awful lot of folks in this discussion were involved in both.
> >
> > Except in the very earliest days (any maybe not even then), there wasn't
> much
> > overlap.
> >
> > Try reading the attendee lists in the Internet and TCP Working Group
> minutes
> > from the late 70s (available in IENs); there are not a lot of names there
> > which figure in the ARPANet work. Certainly, by the time I joined the
> project
> > in ~ '78 (i.e.  fairly early), there weren't a lot of ARPANET people
> left.
>
> A footnote -- this was also true within BBN.  The IMP guys weren't the
> folks who won the TCP contract -- it was the OS (TENEX) guys.
>
> Craig
>
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