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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!munnari.oz.au!spool.mu.edu!sdd.hp.com!math.ohio-state.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!newsrelay.iastate.edu!news.iastate.edu!ponderous.cc.iastate.edu!michaelv From: michaelv@iastate.edu (Michael L. VanLoon) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Subject: Re: What is BSD ?? Is there a FAQ out there ?? Date: 7 May 94 17:23:40 GMT Organization: Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa Lines: 35 Message-ID: <michaelv.768331420@ponderous.cc.iastate.edu> References: <2q7429$cph@news.tamu.edu> <barileCpB62C.MI8@netcom.com> <michaelv.768157513@ponderous.cc.iastate.edu> <2qbhh8$9fe@homer.cs.mcgill.ca> NNTP-Posting-Host: ponderous.cc.iastate.edu In <2qbhh8$9fe@homer.cs.mcgill.ca> storm@cs.mcgill.ca (Marc WANDSCHNEIDER) writes: >In article <michaelv.768157513@ponderous.cc.iastate.edu>, Michael L. VanLoon <michaelv@iastate.edu> wrote: >>>SD (suravara@eemips.tamu.edu) wrote: >>>: What exactly is UNIX under BSD. >>BSD Unix is a research-oriented branch of Unix that is the foundation >>for many of today's popular Unix implementations. BSD Unix invented >>TCP/IP networking, for example. > the phrasing of that last sentence leaves a little to be > desired i think. > as far as i recall, a whole buttload of people 'invented' > TCP/IP, and then the DoD paid BBN to implement it on > 4.2BSD. > so, it was the FIRST UN*X to have TCP/IP, but i'd be > very doubtful of any claim that stated that the BSD > guys invented tcp/ip. I already restated my last sentence to be less sweeping in generality. But without BSD Unix development in the TCP/IP area, the color of networking in the world today would likely be *very* different. And, quite possibly, that color would be a very bland mixture of AT&T TLI and some tortured lower-level protocol. -- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Michael L. VanLoon Iowa State University Computation Center michaelv@iastate.edu Project Vincent Systems Staff Free your mind and your machine -- NetBSD free Un*x for PC/Mac/Amiga/etc. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -