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David Mills' Fuzzball

by larsbrinkhoff on 1/19/24, 6:04 AM with 6 comments

• by jacquesm on 1/19/24, 7:30 AM

  Oh that's interesting, thank you. I never knew that so much of this stuff was originally written in assembly, I thought it was all 'C' from day #1.

  For instance this FTP server: https://github.com/pdp11/fuzzball-operating-system/blob/mast...

• by sprayk on 1/19/24, 12:58 PM

  in files/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/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'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.

• by DonHopkins on 1/19/24, 1:59 PM

  Fuzzball was named after Lynn Gold's fuzzy little white Bichon.

• by larsbrinkhoff on 1/19/24, 6:04 AM

  An archive of Mills' Fuzzball operating system for PDP-11 computers. Its main application was as a router in NSFnet.