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| ===== - Who used Chaosnet? ===== | ===== - Who used Chaosnet? ===== |
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| Chaosnet was developed at MIT, where it was initially implemented for [[wp>Lisp machine|LISP machines]] and [[wp>Incompatible Timesharing System|ITS]], then also for [[wp>TOPS-20]], VMS, Unix, and MINITS. At MIT, there were approximately 447 computers and 17 subnets in use in 1989 (according to ''SYSHST;HSTMIT 1115''). | Chaosnet was developed at MIT, where it was initially implemented for [[wp>Lisp machine|LISP machines]] and [[wp>Incompatible Timesharing System|ITS]], then also for [[wp>TOPS-20]], VMS, Unix, MINITS, and Multics. At MIT, there were approximately 447 computers and 17 subnets in use in 1989 (according to ''SYSHST;HSTMIT 1115''). |
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| The main spread in the rest of the world was through LISP machines: the original MIT machines, the [[wp>Lisp Machines|LMI]] and [[wp>Symbolics]] machines, and the [[wp>TI Explorer|Texas Instruments]] machines. Only a few other types of computers ran Chaosnet, but it was apparently popular enough that [[https://docstore.mik.ua/univercd/cc/td/doc/product/software/ssr83/rpc_r/48381.htm|Cisco implemented it in their routers]]. | The main spread in the rest of the world was through LISP machines: the original MIT machines, the [[wp>Lisp Machines|LMI]] and [[wp>Symbolics]] machines, and the [[wp>TI Explorer|Texas Instruments]] machines. Only a few other types of computers ran Chaosnet, but it was apparently popular enough that [[https://docstore.mik.ua/univercd/cc/td/doc/product/software/ssr83/rpc_r/48381.htm|Cisco implemented it in their routers]]. |
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| In 2016, Lars Brinkhoff started [[https://github.com/PDP-10/its|the ITS resurrection project]] which made ITS more wide-spread, and in 2017, Daniel Seagraves released [[https://github.com/dseagrav/ld|LambdaDelta]], an emulator of the LMI Lambda lisp machine, which supports Chaosnet over Ethernet. | In 2016, Lars Brinkhoff started [[https://github.com/PDP-10/its|the ITS resurrection project]] which made ITS more wide-spread, and in 2017, Daniel Seagraves released [[https://github.com/dseagrav/ld|LambdaDelta]], an emulator of the LMI Lambda lisp machine, which supports Chaosnet over Ethernet. |
| There is also Chaosnet support for [[https://github.com/Chaosnet/Chaosnet-for-4.1BSD|4.1BSD]] and [[https://github.com/Chaosnet/minits|MINITS]], e.g. under the [[https://github.com/simh/simh|SIMH]] emulator. Work is in progress on restoring Chaos also to [[wp>TOPS-20]] and [[wp>Multics]]. | There is also Chaosnet support for [[https://github.com/Chaosnet/Chaosnet-for-4.1BSD|4.1BSD]] and [[https://github.com/Chaosnet/minits|MINITS]], e.g. under the [[https://github.com/simh/simh|SIMH]] emulator. Work is in progress on restoring Chaos also to [[wp>TOPS-20]], [[wp>Multics]], and [[wp>OpenVMS|VMS]]. |
| {{ Lambda.png?100|An LMI Lambda}} | {{ Lambda.png?100|An LMI Lambda}} |
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