Ethernet names...

Gregory Beat w9gb at icloud.com
Wed Oct 3 20:44:26 CDT 2018


Grant -
Occasional vague references to “I”, when Ethernet II was used (as I remember).
I assumed the reference was for initial 3 Mbps work at PARC.

Gateway Communications started in Irvine, CA (1981?) offering G/Net (~double the 3 Mbps), I remember installing their demonstration system (1982 or 1983?)
By 1983, 3Com ThinNet (10-Base-2) released for IBM PCs.  University of Iowa graduate college installed one of their first LANs with an Altos sever (8086, 10 MHz).

greg
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From: Grant Taylor <cctalk at gtaylor.tnetconsulting.net>
Subject: Ethernet names...

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. . . .
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