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A Short History of Chaosnet (2018)
- larsbrinkhoff 3y agoChaosnet today: https://chaosnet.net/ https://chaosnet.net/
- pledess 3y agoIt 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_l 3y agoArguably 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)
- dang 3y agoRelated: A Short History of Chaosnet - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29927718 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29927718 - Jan 2022 (1 comment) A Short History of Chaosnet (2018) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19480577 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19480577 - March 2019 (6 comments)
- eswenson 3y agoWe have quite a few machines running ITS, LISPM, and other OSs on the chaosnet today. See https://chaosnet.net https://chaosnet.net for details.