From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: pnr@planet.nl (Paul Ruizendaal)
Date: Wed, 15 Feb 2017 11:16:01 +0100
Subject: [TUHS] About the SPIDER network in V6
Message-ID: <4D228890-240E-419B-B8F8-4449AAA0C980@planet.nl>


I have found a video by Sandy Fraser from 1994 which discusses the Spider network (but not the related Unix software). The first 30 min or so are about Spider and the ideas behind it, then it moves on to Datakit and ATM:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ojRtJ1U6Qzw

Although the thinking behind them is very different, the "switch" on the Spider network seems to have been somewhat similar to an Arpanet IMP.

Paul

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On page 3 of the Research Unix reader (http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~doug/reader.pdf).

"Sandy (A. G.) Fraser devised the Spider local-area ring (v6) and the Datakit switch (v7) that have served in the lab for over a decade. Special services on Spider included a central network file store, nfs, and a communication package, ufs."

I do not recall ever seeing any SPIDER related code in the public V6 source tree. Was it ever released outside Bell Labs?