Michael, Thanks for the trip down memory lane!
I actually worked (indirectly) with SIMNET, way back when. Mostly as part of working on the Defense Simulation Internet (DSI). The DSI was built to allow multiple SIMNET and SIMNET-like simulators to be networked together for training. For example the tank simulators at Fort Knox could be connected to the plane simulators at Mac Doug, could be connected to Apache simulators at another site, could be connected to the forward air controller trainer at XYZ, could be connected to some other "magic stuff" .... and they could all play in the same training exercise. For instance it might even have been theoretically possible to connect all these people together and try different tactics for something similar to but not quite the same as "The Great SCUD hunt" during Gulf I. I can neither confirm nor deny that some DSI/SIMNET ideas and protocols were later adapted and used in some online gaming consoles :-) Which is also why we have IPv6. IPv5 was deployed as part of DSI to enable to inter-site communications. On Thu, Mar 3, 2016 at 10:23 AM, Michael Tiernan <[email protected]> wrote: > I thought that some of the folks on this list might find this stuff > interesting.... > > What is SIMNET? > > SIMNET stands for SIMulator NETworking. Initiated in 1983, it was the > first “shared virtual reality” distributed simulation system. It was > sponsored by DARPA > > http://simnet-history.org/ > > -- > << MCT >> Michael C Tiernan. http://www.linkedin.com/in/mtiernan > Non Impediti Ratione Cogatationis > Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs > should relax and get used to the idea. -Robert A. Heinlein > > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss > This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators > http://lopsa.org/ >
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