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Aucbvax.4123 fa.unix-wizards utzoo!decvax!ucbvax!unix-wizards Wed Sep 30 11:49:40 1981 Re: Purdue network >From decvax!pur-ee!aef@Berkeley Wed Sep 30 11:46:46 1981 Since there have been several references to the "Purdue Network" recently in "unix-wizards", this item is intended to prevent any confusion or misinformation about it.

The entire system was originally developed by William Croft while employed at the School of Electrical Engineering at Purdue University. He is now with SRI. The EE school appears on Usenet and Uucp as "pur-ee" which is not to be confused with the uucp site "purdue" (the CS department).

The network currently operates here in the Engineering Computer Network with two Vax 11/780s running 4.1BSD (one Vax is the Dual-Processor variety), two PDP 11/70s and three PDP 11/45s running V7 UNIX, one PDP 11/45 running V6 UNIX, and one PDP 11/40 running standalone network code. Soon there will be three or four more Vax 11/780s. The system uses DMC-11s, while DA-11s (two DR11Bs back-to-back) are also supported.

If others who have implemented the "Croft" ("Purdue/EE") network have other capabilities, such as serial-line network connections, implementations in other operating systems, we would be interested in hearing about it.

Art Feather (pur-ee!aef)

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