Original ARPANET protocols (was: I need some PDP-11 RT11 archiving software)
I thought the classic PDP-11 unix way was UUCP.
Allison
..>On Fri, 31 Mar 2000, Chris Kennedy wrote:
>>
>> Dunno, but I was using FTP in 1975-76. I'd guess that
>> any behavioral resemblence is more a consequence of the
>> two both having similar functions, i.e., moving files
>> around, rather than any sort of common parentage...
>>
>
>If you were using it in 1975-1976, it wasn't FTP as it exists today -
>it would be the FTP implemented on top of the "old" ARPANET protocols
>(sometimes referred to as "NCP", but I believe more properly referred to
>as simply "Host-to-Host Protocol").
>
>But that reminds me of a question I had while I was having lunch today ...
>Was there ever an implementation of the old ARPANET protocols on a PDP-11
>or VAX Unix? If it ever existed, I'd guess it would have had to have been
>on top of Seventh Edition, but I can't recall ever seeing any drivers for
>an ACC LH/DH or DEC IMP-11 on any incarnation of that platform. Berkeley
>Unix added TCP/IP in 4.1a, but I don't remember if there had been any
>ARPANET support (for the old protocol) before that.
>
>--Pat.
>
>
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