early desktop TCP/IP implementations (was Re: "first" computer on the internet)

29 Jul 2008

...
  > > Unix
and Linux, yes.  MacOS didn't have built in TCP/IP until MacOS 8
> > in 1997. 
 I don't think that is correct.  Unless you're claiming that MacTCP was
 not "built in", which you could claim, but John Veizades would probably
 have something to say about that. 
He might have something to say about it, but it certainly wasn't built
in.  It certainly didn't come with System 6 or early System 7.  (I
stand corrected in my earlier statement, because apparently MacOS
7.5.3 shipped with TCP/IP).   I'm sure we can all agree that "built in
TCP/IP" means "ships with the operating system" and not "you need to
go get this extra software to get 'built in TCP/IP'".

If you use that kind of definition every operating system to which
TCP/IP could be added had built in TCP/IP.  Look, my Commodore 64 has
'built in' TCP/IP.

Eric

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early desktop TCP/IP implementations (was Re: "first" computer on the internet)