22 Aug
2014
22 Aug
'14
10:35 p.m.
From: Dan Cross <crossd(a)gmail.com>
Unix was on the ARPAnet circa 1975 (if not earlier):
http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc681
Good catch; I didn't know of that document. There is a later, more extensive
document (set) about it, "A Network Unix System for the ARPANET", but
that's
from several years later, and doesn't include anything about the history of
the implementation.
it's entirely possible that the ARPAnet Unix work
was done before V6
...
if I had to hazard a guess I'd say they were running V5; perhaps
heavily patched.
The RFC says this (translated to lower case since the all-upper made my
eyes hurt :-):
FOr further information concerning the different I/O calls the reader is
directed to The Unix Programmer's Manual, Fifth Edition, K. Thompson,
D. M. Ritchie, June 1974.
which I think makes it pretty definitive...
Noel