22 Jul
2008
22 Jul
'08
2:37 p.m.
Mark wrote:
And what was the first operating system to have
builtin support for
internet access?
I wrote:
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.
Rich Alderson wrote:
While BSD 4 may have had a TCP/IP implementation, the
reference
implementation was done on TENEX and TOPS-20 systems and Multics.
In 1982, did either TENEX or TOPS-20, as distributed, include TCP/IP?
My (possibly incorrect) recollection was that TOPS-20 didn't actually
ship with "built in" TCP/IP support at that time, while BSD 4.1a did.
Eric