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Rich Alderson wrote:
> Neil Rieck wrote:
>> But for me, DEC`s hatred for C, UNIX and TCPIP was just plain stupid
>> since 16-bit PDP and 32-bit VAX were responsible for creating
>> ARPAnet.
>
> A great deal of the work on the ARPANET and early Internet was done on
> PDP-10 family computers
>
> Unix(TM) did not get TCP/IP until the 1980s, a dozen years after the
> ARPANET began
To this I`d like to add, first there were a few PDP-11s running Unix
with the NCP protocol on the pre-TCP ARPANET. E.g. University of
Illinois and RAND. Second, VAX computers weren`t even around when
ARPANET got started. In fact, were there any at all on the ARPANET
before the 1983 flag day?
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