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
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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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