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| Authored by: Wol on Wednesday, July 25 2012 @ 01:31 PM EDT |
I remember having Primenet demonstrated to me. Based on Cambridge Ring (which I
don't really know anything about) we were logged in on a computer at Pr1me's
base in Southampton, and the Pr1mate demonstrating it logged into several
machines in America, going through one machine to another, to another.
That was in the 1984 timeframe (I left that job mid '85).
Cheers,
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, July 25 2012 @ 08:23 PM EDT |
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Packet_switching
Not to say their was no Govt. involvement, but it looks
like wiki may either be all wrong or I have an encrypted
link to a secret wiki page that no one else can see?
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| Authored by: Wol on Thursday, July 26 2012 @ 11:51 AM EDT |
does it?
As far as I'm aware, ethernet (in its various forms) came as a thick cable to
which you applied vampire taps, thin co-ax which you used t-pieces to take a
connection off, or cat-5 nowadays.
As far as I am aware the twisted pair running broadband to my house is not
ethernet ... the fibre-optic cables streaming data between exchanges are not
ethernet ... etc etc etc.
Certainly when we networked those two Pr1mes together (cf my other post) that
certainly wasn't ethernet! BBS dial-up wasn't ethernet.
How much *W*ANs are ethernet based? LANs very much yes, but WANs?
Cheers,
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