Derek Glidden wrote:
> And the original Internet actually ran primarily on Digital PDP type
> machines, since it was originally developed on Digital PDP type
> machines. The "IMP" was a famous piece of equipment that was used as
> the original test platform for TCP/IP and was built as a peripheral to
> Digital PDP 11/70s I believe. Of course, at that time it was called
> ARPANET.
Of course when I stated that, I had the ARPANET v. Internet clearly
in mind. By the "original Internet" I mean circa 1983 when TCP/IP
was established as its protocol defacto. I consider the ARPANET as
the pre-Internet.
> By the time it was called "the Internet" it ran on all kinds
> of platforms. A lot of *servers* are Sun boxes, but most *traffic* goes
> across Cisco equipment than any other vendor hardware on the Internet
> nowadays.
Of course, Cisco didn't come around until later in the 80s. A lot
of early routing was done by either IMP or other
application-specific off-shoots, or "open systems" running routing
services (e.g., routed). SunOS was the "original open system."
> Also, I seem to recall seeing not only Sun machines, but quite a number
> of Digital VAXen and HP and IBM Minis and various flavors of Mainframes
> at Uni when I was going to school not more than a few years ago. I'd
> hardly say that Sun has or had a stranglehold on university computing
> departments any more or less than any other platform, especially today.
> If anyone has anything close to a stranglehold on university networks
> today, it would have to be Microsoft since just about any computing lab
> you walk into on any campus today will be mostly PCs running some flavor
> of Windows. (And that includes Stanford...)
Okay, okay. Let me get _more_specific_.
SUN created DNS-friendly and IETF-governed NIS/NFS which was the
defacto network directory and filesystem approach in the absence of
anything else out there that worked well with DNS -- i.e. circa
1980-1995. You had your choice of standalone LANs of DNS ignorant
local protocols (e.g., Microsoft's NetBIOS/NetBEUI, Novell IPX/SPX),
various vendor proprietary, and quite costly, options, or Sun's
nice, open and DNS-designed NIS/NFS approach.
-- TheBS
-- Bryan "TheBS" Smith mailto:b.j.smith@ieee.org chat:thebs413 Engineer AbsoluteValue Systems, Inc. http://www.linux-wlan.org President SmithConcepts, Inc. http://www.SmithConcepts.com
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