Re: [TUHS] Directory services in early Unix networks?

Dan - all good questions, but I think you are mixing a few things (which is easy to do as they all had different evolutionary paths). - ARPAnet was Rand, UCLA and UofI in the early to mid 70s. - UCLA line would fork competely with the original Locus work of the mid 70's, which would reappear later in the 80's post BSD - IP Networking was done by BBN for 4.1BSD in the late 70s - originally as an OS independant stack (hence it has its own memory manager to insulated it from the local S). Besides UNIX I think it went into HP's MPE and maybe a couple f other systems. - The BBN IP stack was then repliced into UNIX by UCB/CRSG as 4.1A with Joy's sockets layer in 82/83 - HOST.TXT was finaly abandoned and BIND was then done (primarily at UCB by peed on by many) - I want to say eary 80's the SCCS files might give you some hints. - Hesiod was MIT/Athenia and NIS by Sun were later developed somewhat in the same time frame (mid to late 80s) - CHAOS was completely seperate, although influenced the BBN code and was the early/mid 70s. - BTL's DataKit of course, had the UoI (Chesson) influence was late 70s. - Best I can tell Newcastle was complete seperate from all of this (also late 70s). Clem ᐧ