Editing Packet switching (section)

====Octopus====<!-- [[Octopus network]] and similar redirect here -->
Octopus was a local network at [[Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory]]. It connected sundry hosts at the lab to interactive terminals and various computer peripherals including a bulk storage system.<ref>{{cite journal |last= Mendicino |first= Samuel F. |title= 1970 OCTOPUS: THE LAWRENCE RADIATION LABORATORY NETWORK |journal= Computer Networks |pages= 95–100 |publisher= Prentice-Hall Inc. |location= Englewood Cliffs, N.J. |year= 1972 |url= http://rogerdmoore.ca/PS/OCTOA/OCTO.html |access-date= 2013-08-30 |archive-date= 2013-10-20 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20131020142202/http://rogerdmoore.ca/PS/OCTOA/OCTO.html |url-status= dead }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last= Pehrson |first= David L. |title= AN ENGINEERING VIEW OF THE LRL OCTOPUS COMPUTER NETWORK |year= 1970 |url= http://www.computer-history.info/Page4.dir/pages/Octopus.dir/index.html}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last= Fletcher |first= John G. |title= Principles of Design in the Octopus Computer network |year= 1975 |url= http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=810357}}</ref>