2 Jul
2022
2 Jul
'22
4:51 a.m.
On 6/25/22 7:17 PM, Paul Ruizendaal wrote:
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.
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