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From: jnc@mercury.lcs.mit.edu (Noel Chiappa)
To: tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org
Cc: jnc@mercury.lcs.mit.edu
Subject: Re: [TUHS] More Spider
Date: Sun, 26 Jan 2020 12:46:46 -0500 (EST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200126174646.9043218C0AA@mercury.lcs.mit.edu> (raw)

    > From: Paul Ruizendaal

    > a loop network with fixed size short datagrams

It might be worth mentioning that the Cambridge Ring (in the UK) used a very
similar idea: a head end circulated empty frames which stations could fill in.
I think it started slightly later, though. Material about it is available
online.

  Noel

             reply	other threads:[~2020-01-26 17:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-01-26 17:46 Noel Chiappa [this message]
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2020-01-26 14:04 Paul Ruizendaal
2020-01-26 16:56 ` Ken Thompson via TUHS
2020-01-26 17:50   ` Jon Steinhart
2020-01-26 21:26   ` Paul Ruizendaal
2020-01-26 21:55     ` Jon Steinhart
2020-01-26 16:58 ` Larry McVoy

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