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A Short History of Chaosnet (2018)

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eswenson1 year ago

We have quite a few machines running ITS, LISPM, and other OSs on the chaosnet today. See https://chaosnet.net for details.

larsbrinkhoff1 year ago

Chaosnet today: https://chaosnet.net/

dang1 year ago

Related:

A Short History of Chaosnet - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29927718 - Jan 2022 (1 comment)

A Short History of Chaosnet (2018) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19480577 - March 2019 (6 comments)

pledess1 year ago

It says "Usage of Chaosnet presumably waned as Lisp machines became less and less popular." That's basically true, but there was substantial Chaosnet usage from multi-user machines (e.g., UNIX, VMS, TOPS-20). Once you had a Sun-3 or MicroVAX, though, you probably left Chaosnet behind.

p_l1 year ago

Arguably lisp machines were the last bastion of chaosnet, as even in somewhat later models chaosnet over ethernet could be easier to setup than other protocols.

That said, Symbolics Genera made all of It's services work over I think all protocols it supported (so chaosnet, serial lines, IP, etc)