5 Dec
2019
5 Dec
'19
4:58 p.m.
On 5 Dec 2019 11:34 +0100, from pnr(a)planet.nl (Paul Ruizendaal):
Not sure when PPP first appeared, but the linux man
page for pppd
has a credit that goes back to Carnegie Mellon 1984. First
appearance in BSD seems to be FreeBSD 5.3 (2004), which seems
improbably late (same source).
The FreeBSD man page archive indicates that client-side (user) PPP
goes back at least to 2.0.5-RELEASE.
It's there in 2.0.5-RELEASE at
<https://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=ppp&apropos=0&sektion=8&manpath=FreeBSD+2.0.5-RELEASE&arch=default&format=html>
It isn't there in 2.0-RELEASE at
<https://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=ppp&apropos=0&sektion=8&manpath=FreeBSD+2.0-RELEASE&arch=default&format=html>
However, 2.0-RELEASE has pppd at
<https://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=pppd&sektion=8&apropos=0&manpath=FreeBSD+2.0-RELEASE>
Even FreeBSD 1.0-RELEASE has pppd at
<https://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=pppd&apropos=0&sektion=8&manpath=FreeBSD+1.0-RELEASE&arch=default&format=html>
The 1.0-RELEASE man page for pppd references documents as recent as
May 1992, which agrees fairly well with Wikipedia which gives the
release date for FreeBSD 1 as November 1993.
Certainly a lot earlier than 2004.
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