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There were several implementations of that idea in the early 1980s. The following paper describes one of them. More Taste: Less Greed? or Sending UNIX to the F

by tjalfi 9y ago

There were several implementations of that idea in the early 1980s. The following paper describes one of them. More Taste: Less Greed? or Sending UNIX to the Fat Farm[0] describes a V7 derivative that had /dev/deuna, /dev/arp, /dev/ip, and /dev/udp. [0] http://www.collyer.net/who/geoff/taste.pdf http://www.collyer.net/who/geoff/taste.pdf

marvy 9y ago
Not much details though. Oh well.
- tjalfi 9y ago
  The code in Research Unix V8, V9, and V10 is available. Alcaltel-Lucent made them public a couple months ago[0]. Here are the relevant URLs and file paths within the archives. I already had them on my hard drive and it was easy to grep them. I removed a few columns from the output of tar. V8 http://www.tuhs.org/Archive/Distributions/Research/Dan_Cross_v8/v8.tar.bz2 http://www.tuhs.org/Archive/Distributions/Research/Dan_Cross... 12738 Jul 25 1985 usr/sys/inet/tcp_device.c V9 http://www.tuhs.org/Archive/Distributions/Research/Norman_v9/batterpudding.tar.gz http://www.tuhs.org/Archive/Distributions/Research/Norman_v9... 13461 Aug 6 1986 ./sys/inet.old/old/tcp_device.c 13457 Feb 3 1987 ./sys/inet.old/tcp_device.c 13457 Feb 24 1987 ./sys/inet/tcp_device.c V10 http://www.tuhs.org/Archive/Distributions/Research/Dan_Cross_v10/v10src.tar.bz2 http://www.tuhs.org/Archive/Distributions/Research/Dan_Cross... 13542 Feb 20 1990 lsys/inet/tcp_device.c 13622 Mar 9 1992 sys/inet/tcp_device.c [0]https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13971909 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13971909 Edited to fix formatting.
  - marvy 9y ago
    Oh, nice! But I can't find the right man page.
    - tjalfi 9y ago
      V8 doesn't have a /dev/tcp man page but the interface is documented at /usr/include/sys/inet/tcp_user.h[0]. Here are the commands I used to identify the right file. find . -type f -print0 | xargs -0 grep -I "/dev/tcp" | less [0] https://pastebin.com/8RT5vpH6 https://pastebin.com/8RT5vpH6 Edited to add the command sequence for the historical record. Edited again to fix wording of the first sentence.
      - marvy 9y ago
        That's not very documented. How would someone use this?
        tjalfi 9y ago
        V10 has a man page. Extract v10src.tar and look at man/adm/man4/tcp.4.
        marvy 9y ago
        thanks!
        marvy 9y ago
        Okay, this I took a quick look at it, and this seems way to awkward to use from a shell script. It's pretty much C only. I guess Plan 9 does better.

by tjalfi 9y ago

marvy 9y ago

Not much details though. Oh well.

tjalfi 9y ago
The code in Research Unix V8, V9, and V10 is available. Alcaltel-Lucent made them public a couple months ago[0]. Here are the relevant URLs and file paths within the archives. I already had them on my hard drive and it was easy to grep them. I removed a few columns from the output of tar. V8 http://www.tuhs.org/Archive/Distributions/Research/Dan_Cross_v8/v8.tar.bz2 http://www.tuhs.org/Archive/Distributions/Research/Dan_Cross... 12738 Jul 25 1985 usr/sys/inet/tcp_device.c V9 http://www.tuhs.org/Archive/Distributions/Research/Norman_v9/batterpudding.tar.gz http://www.tuhs.org/Archive/Distributions/Research/Norman_v9... 13461 Aug 6 1986 ./sys/inet.old/old/tcp_device.c 13457 Feb 3 1987 ./sys/inet.old/tcp_device.c 13457 Feb 24 1987 ./sys/inet/tcp_device.c V10 http://www.tuhs.org/Archive/Distributions/Research/Dan_Cross_v10/v10src.tar.bz2 http://www.tuhs.org/Archive/Distributions/Research/Dan_Cross... 13542 Feb 20 1990 lsys/inet/tcp_device.c 13622 Mar 9 1992 sys/inet/tcp_device.c [0]https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13971909 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13971909 Edited to fix formatting.
- marvy 9y ago
  Oh, nice! But I can't find the right man page.
  - tjalfi 9y ago
    V8 doesn't have a /dev/tcp man page but the interface is documented at /usr/include/sys/inet/tcp_user.h[0]. Here are the commands I used to identify the right file. find . -type f -print0 | xargs -0 grep -I "/dev/tcp" | less [0] https://pastebin.com/8RT5vpH6 https://pastebin.com/8RT5vpH6 Edited to add the command sequence for the historical record. Edited again to fix wording of the first sentence.
    - marvy 9y ago
      That's not very documented. How would someone use this?
      - tjalfi 9y ago
        V10 has a man page. Extract v10src.tar and look at man/adm/man4/tcp.4.
        marvy 9y ago
        thanks!
        marvy 9y ago
        Okay, this I took a quick look at it, and this seems way to awkward to use from a shell script. It's pretty much C only. I guess Plan 9 does better.