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

[craig at aland.bbn.com (Craig Partridge)]

> > PS - my introductory role to the Internet in the 1977/78 timeframe was
> > to implement TCP 2.5 for a PDP-11/40 running Unix, using Jim Mathis'
> > implementation for the LSI-11 as a base. ?AFAIK, that was the first
> > TCP implementation for any Unix system. ?Because the 11/40 was so
> > limited, my implementation was done in user address space, which
> > severely hampered performance. ?Mike Wingfield subsequently did an
> > implementation in C for the PDP-11/70, and Rob Gurwitz did one for the
> > VAX. ?Rob's code was supplied to Berkeley for incorporation in BSD,
> > but whether they used it in the BSD TCP for anything other than a
> > bookend is unknown.

Yes, they used to justify their bugs on the grounds that the bugs were
also present in the BSD code.  Half :-) but half serious as I did hear
the excuse at least once from a Berkeley person.

Thanks!

Craig