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From: DCP@QUABBIN.SCRC.SYMBOLICS.COM (David C. Plummer)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip
Subject: Re: Many things on ethernet together???
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Date: 10 May 88 14:24:00 GMT
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    Date: 8 May 88 04:24:48 GMT
    From: pyramid!leadsv!laic!wilson@decwrl.dec.com  (Robin Wilson)

False information alert!

    ... Symbolics using CHAOS (TCP derivative) ...

Chaos is not a TCP derivative.  Chaos was in active service at MIT
around 1978 or so, which I think was before TCP became operational.
Chaos is more a derivation of (Xerox) PUP and Arpanet NCP, with a bunch
of things "fixed."  In some ways it is more powerful than TCP/IP, and in
some ways less.  It is certainly not a derivative of TCP, even though
Chaos's designers worked in the same building as some of the major
contributors to the TCP design.