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Generally a lot of networking code evolved on the big 36bit machines. There were implementations for unix that predated BSD sockets, but AFAIK Berkeley got a gr
by p_l 2y ago
Generally a lot of networking code evolved on the big 36bit machines. There were implementations for unix that predated BSD sockets, but AFAIK Berkeley got a grant to make an implementation that would be freely accessible when TOPS-20 future was indicated to be in jeopardy - or it might have been just because before AT&T being able to demand licensing fees, everyone was putting out clones of Unix on various hardware.
- e40 2y agoI'm pretty sure Berkeley (or UC?) had a System V license and was allowed to redistribute code based on it in BSD. That became a point of contention later, when the *BSDs started to become popular. This is all very old stuff so I might have the details wrong. It was definitely a fun time to be at UCB. I remember getting the early Sun workstations and porting stuff to them. It was a really good port of BSD, but that Motorola chip was a problem for some things. I ported the Franz Lisp compiler (liszt) to it.