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Does anyone actually have details about the project? Skimming the wikipage https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Cybersyn https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project

Does anyone actually have details about the project? Skimming the wikipage https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Cybersyn https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Cybersyn the networking side of things is rather primitive: a single master node talking to a number of child nodes with no other inter node communication. And a lot of software build in the master node to review what is happening in the child nodes. Nothing mentioned packets, routing, or any of the other more interesting bits of what made the original internet different. Down the wikihole: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OGAS https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OGAS seems like the arpanet not taken, 10 years before arpanet with the same design goals of inter node communication.

_int3_ 4y ago
There was communication network (500 telex machines) , and one mainframe computer. For internet you may also need packet switching.
- deepdriver 4y ago
  My understanding is that the "network" was a manually-staffed telex operations room: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/290742382_Cybernetics_of_Governance_The_Cybersyn_Project_1971-1973 https://www.researchgate.net/publication/290742382_Cyberneti... >Serendipitously, we found a large number of spare telex machines in one of the state-owned enterprises. Their installation followed in plants and enterprises throughout the country, as well as in industrial committees, CORFO and other government offices. A telex room with tens of machines was installed at CORFO. In practice, it was an operations room for the state-owned industry that offered an incipient nervous system for the industrial economy; it was called Cybernet The telex itself was not invented in Chile, but rather ironically in 1930s Germany: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telex#Development https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telex#Development
  - _int3_ 4y ago
    This telex machines act like terminals if you connect them to computer. They did best with technology they had. (previous government didn't know how to use them). It is remarkable what they did. And very interesting. The title is misleading.
- remram 4y ago
  So it was a single "Wide-Area Network"?

_int3_ 4y ago

There was communication network (500 telex machines) , and one mainframe computer. For internet you may also need packet switching.

deepdriver 4y ago
My understanding is that the "network" was a manually-staffed telex operations room: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/290742382_Cybernetics_of_Governance_The_Cybersyn_Project_1971-1973 https://www.researchgate.net/publication/290742382_Cyberneti... >Serendipitously, we found a large number of spare telex machines in one of the state-owned enterprises. Their installation followed in plants and enterprises throughout the country, as well as in industrial committees, CORFO and other government offices. A telex room with tens of machines was installed at CORFO. In practice, it was an operations room for the state-owned industry that offered an incipient nervous system for the industrial economy; it was called Cybernet The telex itself was not invented in Chile, but rather ironically in 1930s Germany: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telex#Development https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telex#Development
- _int3_ 4y ago
  This telex machines act like terminals if you connect them to computer. They did best with technology they had. (previous government didn't know how to use them). It is remarkable what they did. And very interesting. The title is misleading.
remram 4y ago
So it was a single "Wide-Area Network"?