[TUHS] Ancient unixes

[Brantley Coile]

this name `internet' name space was considered and rejected.  it's
harder than one would think to get details right for all networks, the
addess is only a small part of the information needed for the
connection, and keeping a name space for all the internet updated
would be very hard.  instead they use a network!machine!port syntax
with the dial command.

you can follow the full development of those ideas in the following papers.


http://cm.bell-labs.com/cm/who/dmr/spe.html
http://cm.bell-labs.com/sys/doc/net/net.html

remember.  seventh edition was relase in 1977.
Jimmy Carter was president, ``Anne Hall'' won best
picture, and the Chevy Nova was a big hit.