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Revision as of 14:38, 18 October 2018
CHAOSnet was the name for both an internetworking protocol family, and an early 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.
There are implementations for at least ITS, TOPS-20, Foonex (TENEX), Lisp Machines, VAX/VMS, BSD Unix, PDP-11 Unix V7, and Linux.
External links
- Lisp Machine Chaosnet documentation Includes chapters on ITS, TOPS-20, Lisp Machine, and Unix implementations.
