Date   : Fri, 09 Nov 1990 22:23:56 GMT
From   : cert!netnews.upenn.edu!grad2.cis.upenn.edu!farber@lll-winken.llnl.gov (David Farber)
Subject: Early microcomputer networks

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.