18 Jan
2020
18 Jan
'20
6:36 a.m.
On Fri, Jan 17, 2020 at 5:33 PM Paul Ruizendaal <pnr(a)planet.nl> wrote:
Rich was kind enough to look through the Joyce papers to see if it
contained "CSRG Tech Report 4: Proposals for Unix on the VAX”. It did.
As list regulars will know I’ve been looking for that paper for years as
it documents the early ideas for networking and IPC in what was to become
4.2BSD.
It is an intriguing paper that discusses a network API that is imo fairly
different from what ended up being in 4.1a and 4.2BSD. It confirms Kirk
McKusick’s recollection that the select statement was modelled after the
ADA select statement. It also confirms Clem Cole’s recollection that the
initial ideas for 4.2BSB were significantly influenced by the ideas of
Richard Rashid (Aleph/Accent/Mach).
Besides IPC and networking, it also discusses file systems and a wide
array of potential improvements in various other areas.
Awesome! Is that something that will be scanned in so we can all see it?
Warner