[ih] The UCLA 360/91 on the ARPAnet/Internet

[dhc2 at dcrocker.net (Dave Crocker)]

On 5/12/2012 2:42 PM, Vint Cerf wrote:
> Steve Crocker led the group that developed the
> Sigma-7 Experiment Timesharing system. We called it SEX and the most
> popular document among the geeks was the SEX Users Manual....


Cycling back to the topic of Arpa's wanting to share resources, when we 
tried to get funding for 32K more memory for the system, Arpa instead 
said we should get a PDP-11 and use one of the terminal concentrator 
systems (ANTS from Illinois or ELF from Santa Barbara) and do remote 
computing.

The concentrator systems weren't up to snuff, but Unix was coming 
available on PDP-11s and we got that.

So Arpa took away our Sex and gave us Unix.

Our original superuser password was, of course, eunuchs.

d/
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  Dave Crocker
  Brandenburg InternetWorking
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