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Long gone, DEC is still powering the world of computing
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TCP/IP was... part of the BSD project? PDP-11 or VAX?
Our museum mostly collects minis from science & academia, so it leans REALLY heavily DEC.
If I remember right, it was sponsored by DARPA. It was in the early 80s, so it would have been on VAX. It wasn't the first implementation (there were several prototypes), but it's the design that stuck; all the major OS implementations of TCP/IP today use the sockets API (if not the source code directly; several identical network vulnerabilities on different OSs are due to the fact that BSD code was free to use and copy).