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Cambridge Ring (computer network)
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<h2 id="see-also">See also</h2> <ul><li><a href="/facts/Cambridge_Distributed_Computing_System/9vgp7p6M">Cambridge Distributed Computing System</a></li> <li><a href="/facts/Internet_in_the_United_Kingdom/hlhmAAea">Internet in the United Kingdom § History</a></li> <li><a href="/facts/JANET/9eJ6RKAC">JANET</a></li> <li><a href="/facts/NPL_network/JWc0pxUu">NPL network</a></li> <li><a href="/facts/Packet_switching/olDlDP1R">Packet switching</a></li> <li><a href="/facts/Token_Ring/mfQj6GSx">Token Ring</a></li> <li><a href="/facts/University_of_London_Computer_Centre/nNRoKEEx">University of London Computer Centre</a></li></ul> <h2 id="external-links">External links</h2> <ul><li><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120716230723/http://koo.corpus.cam.ac.uk/projects/earlyatm/cr82/">Cambridge Ring Hardware</a></li> <li><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120716230729/http://koo.corpus.cam.ac.uk/projects/earlyatm/earlyatm.html">Cambridge Fast Ring</a></li> <li><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120903174601/http://koo.corpus.cam.ac.uk/projects/earlyatm/backbone-ring/index.html">Cambridge Backbone Ring Hardware</a></li> <li><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120204061112/http://www.camring.ucam.org/cl/page?sp=25&sp=25">Cambridge Computer Lab Ring</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/cgi-bin/relicd?name=&machine=any&class=any&uid=34/97">"Ring PCB"</a>. <i>Relic Archive</i>. University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory. Retrieved 9 April 2011.</li></ul> <h2 id="references">References</h2> <ol> <li id="fn:1"><p>"A brief informal history of the Computer Laboratory". University of Cambridge. 20 December 2001. Archived from the original on 13 November 2010. <a href="http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/conference/EDSAC99/history.html" target="_blank">http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/conference/EDSAC99/history.html</a> <a href="#fnref:1" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:2"><p>Roger Needham (1979). "Systems aspects of the Cambridge Ring". Proceedings of the seventh symposium on Operating systems principles - SOSP '79. pp. 82–85. doi:10.1145/800215.806573. ISBN 0-89791-009-5. <a href="0-89791-009-5" target="_blank">0-89791-009-5</a> <a href="#fnref:2" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:3"><p>John R. Pierce, Network for Block Switching of Data, Bell System Technical Journal, Vol. 51, No. 6 (July–August, 1972); pages 1133-1145. <a href="/wiki/John_R._Pierce" target="_blank">/wiki/John_R._Pierce</a> <a href="#fnref:3" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:4"><p>W. J. Kropfl, An Experimental Data Block Switching System, Bell System Technical Journal, Vol. 51, No. 6 (July–August, 1972); pages 1147-1165. <a href="https://archive.org/details/bstj51-6-1147/mode/1up" target="_blank">https://archive.org/details/bstj51-6-1147/mode/1up</a> <a href="#fnref:4" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:5"><p>C. H. Coker, An Experimental Interconnection of Computers Through a Loop, Bell System Technical Journal, Vol. 51, No. 6 (July–August, 1972); pages 1167-1175. <a href="https://archive.org/details/bstj51-6-1167/mode/1up" target="_blank">https://archive.org/details/bstj51-6-1167/mode/1up</a> <a href="#fnref:5" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:6"><p>Andrew Hopper; Roger Needham (1988). "The Cambridge Fast Ring Networking System" (PDF). Orl-88-1. 37 (10): 1214–1223. doi:10.1109/12.5983. <a href="/wiki/Roger_Needham" target="_blank">/wiki/Roger_Needham</a> <a href="#fnref:6" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:7"><p>Andy Hopper (2016). Prof. Andy Hopper - The Cambridge Ring and the Computer Lab. Cambridge, UK: Centre for Computing History – via YouTube. <a href="/wiki/Andy_Hopper" target="_blank">/wiki/Andy_Hopper</a> <a href="#fnref:7" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:8"><p>"The Ring" (PDF). Cambridge Computer Lab Ring. 2005. pp. 12–13. <a href="https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/downloads/ring/ring-2005-01.pdf" target="_blank">https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/downloads/ring/ring-2005-01.pdf</a> <a href="#fnref:8" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:9"><p>"Cambridge Computer Lab Ring". Cambridge Computer Laboratory. 2024. <a href="https://www.cst.cam.ac.uk/ring" target="_blank">https://www.cst.cam.ac.uk/ring</a> <a href="#fnref:9" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> </ol>