26 Sep
2017
26 Sep
'17
11:54 a.m.
Wesley Parish <wes.parish(a)paradise.net.nz> wrote:
Quoting Tony Finch <dot(a)dotat.at>:
There was an earlier project too, from the 1980s, based on
microprocessor distributed around the Cambridge fast ring:
https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/research/srg/netos/projects/archive/plana/
Tony.
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Wesley Parish <wes.parish(a)paradise.net.nz>
wrote:
Yes. I thought it made a lot of sense. I once thought of developing a computer where
everything from the core
functions to the peripherals was a network node. In effect replacing the
bus. I found references to a Cambridge U (UK) computer system that
purported to do just that but couldn't find any more info on it.
The Desk Area Network, perhaps?
http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/research/srg/dan.html