From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: wes.parish@paradise.net.nz (Wesley Parish) Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2017 13:42:43 +1300 (NZDT) Subject: [TUHS] UNIX of choice these days? In-Reply-To: References: <20170923091704.GD10152@darioniedermann.it> <20170924140617.GG28606@mcvoy.com> <20170924203621.GA80203@wopr> <49B7FCB8-A086-4FFB-AF3B-4B3BD167EC54@bitblocks.com> <1506297783.59c847b740373@www.paradise.net.nz> Message-ID: <1506386563.59c9a2834015a@www.paradise.net.nz> Yes. I thought it made a lot of sense. Quoting Tony Finch : > Wesley Parish wrote: > > > I once thought of developing a computer where everything from the > core > > functions to the peripherals was a network node. In effect replacing > the > > bus. I found references to a Cambridge U (UK) computer system that > > purported to do just that but couldn't find any more info on it. > > The Desk Area Network, perhaps? > http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/research/srg/dan.html > > Tony. > -- > f.anthony.n.finch http://dotat.at/ - I xn--zr8h punycode > Malin, Hebrides: Southeast 3 or 4, increasing 5 or 6, occasionally 7 > later in > west. Moderate becoming rough later. Fair. Good. > "I have supposed that he who buys a Method means to learn it." - Ferdinand Sor, Method for Guitar "A verbal contract isn't worth the paper it's written on." -- Samuel Goldwyn