Ethernet names...

Paul Koning paulkoning at comcast.net
Tue Oct 2 12:50:16 CDT 2018


Not clear the 3 Mb one had a name of its own.

Note that Aloha is fundamentally different from Ethernet.  Aloha is MA but not CS nor CD, and its performance characteristics are very different from Ethernet.

	paul


> On Oct 2, 2018, at 1:46 PM, Bill Degnan via cctalk <cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote:
> 
> Ethernet was the name given to the Alto (XEROX) Aloha Network created (?)
> by Bob Metcalff (sp?), which was based/inspired by an improved version of
> the ALOHANET used by the U of Hawaii.  I think Ethernet was a nickname,
> eventually becoming the official name of what was originally the Alto Aloha
> Network.
> 
> I did not look this up in Wikipedia, I am sure this must be somewhere
> 
> Bill
> 
> On Tue, Oct 2, 2018 at 1:35 PM Grant Taylor via cctalk <
> cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote:
> 
>> Does anybody know names / terms that correspond to the original 3 Mbps
>> Ethernet?
>> 
>> I.e. 10 Mbps Ethernet is also knows as Ethernet II (2) and D.I.X. (for
>> Digital, Intel, and Xerox).
>> 
>> Was the first 3 Mbps Ethernet simply called "Ethernet" with an implicit
>> "I" (1)?  Was there a name to differentiate it from D.I.X.?
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> Grant. . . .
>> unix || die
>> 



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