"first" computer on the internet

[madodel]

Eric Smith wrote:
> Mark wrote:
>> And what was the first operating system to have builtin support for 
>> internet access?  Did Windows for Workgroups have this or was that 
>> just LAN networking?
> 
> It certainly wasn't any Microsoft operating system.  Microsoft was at 
> least ten years late to the party.
> 
> If you define "internet access" as "having TCP/IP", it might have been 
> BSD 4.1a, which included the crufty BBN TCP/IP code, and was released in 
> 1982.  ARPANET switched from NCP to TCP/IP on January 1, 1983 ("flag day").


It was stupid of me to leave out BSD.  I knew that IBM used the TCP/IP 
stack in BSD for their OS/2 and probably AIX as well.

Mark