"first" computer on the internet

[Rich Alderson]

> From: Eric Smith
> Sent: Sunday, July 20, 2008 12:19 PM

> 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").

While BSD 4 may have had a TCP/IP implementation, the reference
implementation was done on TENEX and TOPS-20 systems and Multics.