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From: farber@grad2.cis.upenn.edu (David Farber)
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Subject: Re: Early microcomputer networks
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Date: 9 Nov 90 22:23:56 GMT
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In 1973 ish at UC Irvine, we ran a fully distributed operating system
with message passing IPC over a 2.3 megabit per second local
token ring. The systems were 11 style (Locheed SUES) and the ring
evolved to the Proteon and IBM rings latter on.