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From: Grant Taylor via TUHS <tuhs@tuhs.org>
To: tuhs@tuhs.org
Subject: [TUHS] Re: Research Datakit notes
Date: Fri, 1 Jul 2022 20:51:53 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <01b377bf-94e6-6ad4-6a84-ab430c780e95@spamtrap.tnetconsulting.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1420AC1D-8AD7-43C7-8F8B-22E1708846EF@planet.nl>

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On 6/25/22 7:17 PM, Paul Ruizendaal wrote:
> In his video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ojRtJ1U6Qzw), Sandy 
> explains why he became dissatisfied with Spider and the main reason 
> was that doing switching/routing on a mini computer was just plain 
> inefficient as compared to a telephone switch (at 37:06). This was 
> 1972. The result was a new design, Datakit, that could route/switch 
> packets at high speed and in parallel.

I didn't realize, or even fathom that something preceded ATM.

Now it seems like Spider preceded Datakit which preceded ATM.  Very 
interesting.



-- 
Grant. . . .
unix || die


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  reply	other threads:[~2022-07-02  2:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 40+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-06-25 23:01 [TUHS] " Paul Ruizendaal
2022-06-25 23:09 ` [TUHS] " Larry McVoy
2022-06-25 23:57   ` Rob Pike
2022-06-26  1:17     ` Paul Ruizendaal
2022-07-02  2:51       ` Grant Taylor via TUHS [this message]
2022-07-02  2:57         ` Larry McVoy
2022-06-28 10:38     ` Derek Fawcus
2022-06-28 12:36       ` Rob Pike
2022-06-28 12:45         ` Rob Pike
2022-06-28 13:33           ` Dan Cross
2022-06-28 21:19             ` Lawrence Stewart
2022-06-28 21:34               ` Richard Salz
2022-06-29  6:07                 ` Stuart Remphrey
2022-06-28 16:11           ` Tom Teixeira
2022-06-28 18:28           ` John Floren
2022-06-28 12:47         ` Rich Morin
2022-06-28 13:13           ` Marc Donner
2022-06-28 14:41             ` Clem Cole
2022-06-28 15:54               ` Tom Teixeira
2022-06-28 17:05             ` Adam Thornton
2022-06-28 17:43               ` John Labovitz
2022-06-28 22:45               ` [TUHS] HTTP (was Re: Re: Research Datakit notes) Derek Fawcus
2022-06-26  1:41 ` [TUHS] Re: Research Datakit notes Anthony Martin
2022-06-26  9:52   ` Ralph Corderoy
2022-06-26 11:04   ` Paul Ruizendaal
2022-06-29 20:21   ` Paul Ruizendaal
2022-06-26  2:19 Noel Chiappa
2022-06-26  9:46 ` steve jenkin
2022-06-26 20:35   ` Erik Fair
2022-06-26 21:53     ` Steve Jenkin
2022-06-26 10:16 ` Paul Ruizendaal via TUHS
2022-06-26 13:07 ` John Cowan
2022-06-26 13:35   ` Larry McVoy
2022-06-26 13:58     ` John Cowan
2022-06-27  0:43 Noel Chiappa
2022-06-27  3:00 ` Erik Fair
2022-06-27 21:40 Noel Chiappa
2022-06-27 22:40 ` George Michaelson
2022-06-28 15:50 Noel Chiappa
2022-06-28 21:32 ` Lawrence Stewart

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