LISP Machines had all this long before

http://fare.tunes.org/LispM.html
LISP Machine will automatically discover its configuration, finding its network address, the namespace server, etc. CHAOS probably had all this long before DHCP first appeared in 1996

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>LISP was banned in USSR
Proof:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valentin_Turchin
In 1974 he lost his position at the Institute, and was persecuted by the KGB.

And Turchin was an AI expert and the only proponent of Lisp in USSR at the time.