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Revision as of 07:45, 24 August 2021
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.
History
CHAOSnet was initially called CAIOSnet.
Implementations
- Lisp machines
- ITS
- TOPS-20
- FOONEX
- VAX/VMS
- BSD Unix
- MINITS
- PDP-11 Unix V7
- Unix V8
- MagicSix
- Chaosnet Bridge
- Oswalds's Python and Lisp implementations.
- Linux.
Hardware, and simulations
External links
- AI memo 623 - Includes chapters on ITS, TOPS-20, Lisp Machine, and Unix implementations.
- Chaosnet - Detailed descriptions of both the hardware system, and the protociol(s)
