2 Jul
2022
2 Jul
'22
4:57 a.m.
On Fri, Jul 01, 2022 at 08:51:53PM -0600, Grant Taylor via TUHS wrote:
On 6/25/22 7:17 PM, Paul Ruizendaal wrote:
They were Bell Labs, funded by the phone company. It makes sense that
they would look at networking through the phone company lens.
In his video
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ojRtJ1U6Qzw) Sandy explains
why he became dissatisfied with Spider and the main reason was that doing
switching/routing on a mini computer was just plain inefficient as
compared to a telephone switch (at 37:06). This was 1972. The result was a
new design, Datakit, that could route/switch packets at high speed and in
parallel.
I didn't realize, or even fathom that something preceded ATM.
Now it seems like Spider preceded Datakit which preceded ATM. Very
interesting.