Re: NSF and the Birth of the Internet

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

Begin forwarded message:

From: Dave Crocker <dcrocker () bbiw net>
Date: August 19, 2008 3:31:45 AM EDT
To: dave () farber net
Subject: Re: [IP] NSF and the Birth of the Internet


Dave,

This reminded me of a tidbit you might be interested in:  A small  
history effort
among some Rand Corporation old-timers prompted me to record a view of  
the email
work done while we were both affiliated with Rand, in the mid-1970s.


The article is at:

   <http://bbiw.net/articles/rand-email.pdf>

   A Personal view:
   Impact of Email Work at The Rand Corporation in the mid-1970’s

Surprisingly, I believe NSFNet was one of the benefactors.


By way of introduction:

  "By the mid 1970’s Unix was starting to propagate widely, outside  
of Bell
Labs, running on the less expensive DEC PDP-11. Unix was an open  
platform, with
operating system source code provided to organizations licensing it  
from AT&T.
However, its email capabilities were quite primitive. So, Tenex had  
good email.
Unix needed it, and DARPA noted the confluence of folk with email  
interest who
were around Rand Corp. in the summer of 1976. DARPA tasked Rand with  
producing a
fully-capable email system for Unix. The resulting project produced 30  
years of
effects. Perhaps more…"

d/

--

 Dave Crocker
 Brandenburg InternetWorking
 bbiw.net




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