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