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David Mills' Fuzzball

46 pointsby larsbrinkhoffover 1 year ago

4 comments

jacquesmover 1 year ago
Oh that&#x27;s interesting, thank you. I never knew that so much of this stuff was originally written in assembly, I thought it was all &#x27;C&#x27; from day #1.<p>For instance this FTP server: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;pdp11&#x2F;fuzzball-operating-system&#x2F;blob&#x2F;master&#x2F;files&#x2F;FTPSRV.MAC">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;pdp11&#x2F;fuzzball-operating-system&#x2F;blob&#x2F;mast...</a>
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spraykover 1 year ago
in files&#x2F;DCN1.TXT there is essentially a hosts file, and in it are a bunch of udel hostnames that still existed when I was in undergrad and working for the EE&#x2F;CIS lab. The PDPs were all replaced by sun systems at that point, but still served central roles in the infra and likely had the same IPs. I remember having a few 128.4 and 128.175 addresses memorized for various networking configs. those two networks were supposedly originally David&#x27;s, but he had gifted 128.175 to UD and as a result the computer in my dorm (or I guess my wrt54g) had a full blown public IP in that range.
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DonHopkinsover 1 year ago
Fuzzball was named after Lynn Gold&#x27;s fuzzy little white Bichon.
larsbrinkhoffover 1 year ago
An archive of Mills&#x27; Fuzzball operating system for PDP-11 computers. Its main application was as a router in NSFnet.