Chaosnet (1981)
This article provides a historical overview of Chaosnet, a local area network developed by MIT's AI Lab in 1975. It explains how the system supported Lisp Machines by providing decentralized file sharing and resource access.
Why it matters
It offers historical context on the evolution of distributed computing and the architectural foundations of early artificial intelligence research environments.
Chaosnet is a local network , that is, a system for communication among a group of computers located within one or two kilometers of each other. The name Chaosnet refers to the lack of any centralized control element in this network.
The article is a historical technical retrospective with no political or social bias.
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