From: Doug McIlroy <doug@cs.dartmouth.edu>
To: tuhs@tuhs.org
Subject: Re: [TUHS] [TUHS} More Spider
Date: Sun, 26 Jan 2020 22:17:35 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <202001270317.00R3HZGP004867@tahoe.cs.Dartmouth.EDU> (raw)
> 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'm quite sure the similarity is not accidental. Fraser began the Spider
project almost immediately upon moving from Cambridge to Bell Labs.
Doug
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