From: Larry McVoy <lm@mcvoy.com>
To: Grant Taylor <gtaylor@tnetconsulting.net>
Cc: tuhs@tuhs.org
Subject: [TUHS] Re: Research Datakit notes
Date: Fri, 1 Jul 2022 19:57:07 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20220702025707.GF11191@mcvoy.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <01b377bf-94e6-6ad4-6a84-ab430c780e95@spamtrap.tnetconsulting.net>
On Fri, Jul 01, 2022 at 08:51:53PM -0600, Grant Taylor via TUHS wrote:
> 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.
They were Bell Labs, funded by the phone company. It makes sense that
they would look at networking through the phone company lens.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-07-02 2:57 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
2022-07-02 2:57 ` Larry McVoy [this message]
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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