Yeah, I was thinking that 4.1c BSD must've had them for rlogin and telnet.
Which got me looking for Fabry and Bill Joy's design/planning documents for
4.2, which are not in the TUHS archives.
Anyone got them??
On Fri, Aug 15, 2025 at 4:15 PM Warner Losh <imp(a)bsdimp.com> wrote:
At the very least, 4.2BSD had them for telnet and
rlogin. They were
static, though. You had to MAKEDEV enough units.
Warner
On Fri, Aug 15, 2025, 5:00 PM ron minnich <rminnich(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> That was my guess. I figured the people who did the work are on this
> list, and primary sources rule.
>
> On Fri, Aug 15, 2025 at 3:56 PM Ron Natalie <ron(a)ronnatalie.com> wrote:
>
>> I think that wikipedia history is somewhat garbled when it comes to the
>> UNIX implementations.
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