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'''CHAOSnet''' was the name for both an [[internetworking]] [[protocol suite|protocol family]], and an early [[Local area network|LAN]] technology, both invented at the [[MIT AI Laboratory]]; the latter was the LAN on which the protocol first ran.

The LAN was a [[CSMA-CD]] system modeled on the [[Xerox PARC]] 3 megabit/second [[Ethernet]], running over [[cable TV]] cable. The protocol was later made to run over standard 10 megabit/second Ethernet, which largely supplanted the CHAOSnet hardware.

The protocol provided a [[reliable byte stream]] service, but also had a [[datagram]] mode.

== Implementations ==

* Lisp machines
* [[Incompatible Timesharing System|ITS]]
* [[TOPS-20]]
* [[FOONEX]]
* [[VMS|VAX/VMS]]
* [[BSD|BSD Unix]]
* [[MINITS]]
* PDP-11 [[Unix Seventh Edition|Unix V7]]
* Linux.

== External links ==

* [https://lm-3.github.io/amber.html Lisp Machine Chaosnet documentation]  Includes chapters on ITS, TOPS-20, Lisp Machine, and Unix implementations.

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