[TUHS] Craig Partridge on BBN vs BSD TCP/IP

Noel Chiappa via TUHS tuhs at tuhs.org
Tue Jan 20 22:18:00 AEST 2026


    > From: George Michaelson

    > Craig wrote this to the IETF list

    > From: Craig Partridge

    >> The UNIX implementation was done at BBN, if I remember correctly, by
    >> Jack Haverty.

There were _two_ PDP-11 UNIX implementations at BBN. The first, in MACRO-11,
by Jack Haverty, was a port of the one done at SRI by Jim Mathis. The second,
in C, was done by Mike Wingfield. I don't know if this one influenced the VAX
Unix one by Gurwitz. See:

  https://www.tuhs.org/cgi-bin/utree.pl?file=BBN-V6

for its source, and:

  https://www.rfc-editor.org/ien/scanned/ien98.pdf

for more about it.

	Noel


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