3 Feb
2021
3 Feb
'21
7:25 a.m.
From: Greg A. Woods
There's a "v6net" directory in this
repository.
...
I wonder if it is from either of the two ports you mention.
No; the NOSC system is an NCP system, not TCP; and this one has mbufs (which
the BBN v6 one did not have), so it's _probably_ a Berkleyism of some sort
(or did the BBN VAX code have mbuf's too; I don't recall - yes, it did:
https://minnie.tuhs.org//cgi-bin/utree.pl?file=BBN-Vax-TCP
see bbnnet/mbuf.c). It might also be totally new code which just chose to
re-use that meme. I don't have time to look closely to see if I see any
obvious descent.
Too many broken half-baked MUAs seem to still be
widely used.
I'm one of the offendors! Hey, this is a vintage computing list, so what's
the problem with vintage mail readers? :-)
Noel
PS: I'm just about done collecting up the MIT PWB1 TCP system; I only have
the Server FTP left to go. (Alas, it was a joint project between a student
and a staffer, who left just at the end, so half the source in one's personal
area, and the other half's in the other's. So I have to find all the pieces,
and put them in the system's source area.) Once that's done, I'll get it
to
WKT to add to the repositoey. (Getting it to _actually run_ will take a
while, and will happen later: I have to write a device driver for it, the
code uses a rare, long-extinct board.)