[TUHS] Chaosnet in v8

[arnold at skeeve.com]

John Floren via TUHS <tuhs at tuhs.org> wrote:

> I've been doing some research on Lisp machines and came across an
> interesting tidbit: there was Chaosnet support in Unix v8, e.g.
> https://www.tuhs.org/cgi-bin/utree.pl?file=V8/usr/sys/chunix/chaos.c
>
> Does anyone remember why that went in? My first guess would be for
> interoperability with the Symbolics users at Bell Labs (see Bromley's
> "Lisp Lore", 1986), but that's just speculation.
>
> john

Didn't BSD have Chaosnet support? It wouldn't suprise me to learn that
it was just left over from when Research imported 4.1 BSD.

Arnold