22 Jul
2008
22 Jul
'08
2:15 p.m.
From: Eric Smith
Sent: Sunday, July 20, 2008 12:19 PM
Mark wrote:
> And what was the first operating system to have
builtin support for
> internet access? Did Windows for Workgroups have this or was that
just
> LAN networking?
It certainly wasn't any Microsoft operating
system. Microsoft was at
least ten years late to the party.
If you define "internet access" as
"having TCP/IP", it might have been
BSD
4.1a, which included the crufty BBN TCP/IP code, and
was released in
1982.
ARPANET switched from NCP to TCP/IP on January 1, 1983
("flag day").
While BSD 4 may have had a TCP/IP implementation, the reference
implementation was done on TENEX and TOPS-20 systems and Multics.