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The protocol provided a [[reliable byte stream]] service, but also had a [[datagram]] mode.
 
The protocol provided a [[reliable byte stream]] service, but also had a [[datagram]] mode.
  
There were implementations for at least [[Incompatible Timesharing System|ITS]], [[TOPS-20]], Lisp Machines, [[VMS|VAX/VMS]], [[BSD|BSD Unix]], and PDP-11 [[Unix Seventh Edition|Unix V7]].
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There are implementations for at least [[Incompatible Timesharing System|ITS]], [[TOPS-20]], Lisp Machines, [[VMS|VAX/VMS]], [[BSD|BSD Unix]], PDP-11 [[Unix Seventh Edition|Unix V7]], and Linux.
  
 
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== External links ==

Revision as of 07:12, 27 August 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, Lisp Machines, VAX/VMS, BSD Unix, PDP-11 Unix V7, and Linux.

External links