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Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2005 10:04:17 +0100
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Jerry Coffin wrote:
> Second, if the work had been done exclusively or primarily in a
> language the DoD considered its own, I suspect opening it up to the
> public would have taken even longer, if it was ever allowed to happen
> at all.

but still ARPA-net was created by the United States Defense Advanced 
Research Project Agency, part of... the DoD !

> To ensure that, connecting to this system would only be allowed after
> passing an extensive (and expensive) certification process, and only
> one OS in existence would be capable of passing -- and it wouldn't be
> from a bunch of hackers like Microsoft either. It would be from some
> place thoroughly professional, with a thoroughly professional license
> fee (i.e. well out of reach of over 99% of the people who currently use
> the Internet).

I don't remember running UNIX (implemented in C) was cheap at the time 
  ARPA-net was born ! also, one of the major Ada compiler is available 
for free, so why would it be so expensive ?

-- 
rien