[TUHS] Chaos networking in 8th edition (and in 7th)

thomas kirk tk at research.att.com
Fri May 22 03:25:01 AEST 2020


there were several symbolics machines nearby in 1125/6. no reason for any of them
to be using chaosnet, but some probably did anyway.


Rob Pike writes:
 > I have vague memories of one in 1135 or 1138. Could just be thinking of the
 > Symbolics poster by Bart's desk, though, the one advertising Emacs's "over
 > 400 easy to use commands".
 > 
 > -rob
 > 
 > 
 > On Wed, May 20, 2020 at 1:30 PM Doug McIlroy <doug at cs.dartmouth.edu> wrote:
 > 
 > > >> I don't recall any use of Chaos in 1127.  Possibly one of
 > > >> the nearby groups who also used the Research system needed
 > > >> it at some point
 > >
 > > > Speculating wildly, maybe there was a Lisp machine somewhere?
 > >
 > > None that I can remember.
 > >
 > > Doug
 > >


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