Ancient UNIX; was Re: [Gllug] loadavg

Tethys tet at createservices.com
Thu Jan 27 00:08:15 UTC 2005


Ian Northeast writes:

>> It was remarkably difficult, not least because the only name it could
>> resolve was `localhost'. (Whoops.)
>
>No, I meant no IP stack. Not no interfaces. Loopback didn't exist 
>either.

Sure, been there, done that. When I first started using Linux, networking
hadn't been added yet. Which at the time wasn't a problem, as I didn't
have anything to network it to. Running a getty over a serial line to my
Amiga and my DEC Rainbow was the extent of my intermachine communication
in those days.

Tet
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