2 Oct
2018
2 Oct
'18
4:45 p.m.
On Tue, Oct 2, 2018, 11:47 Bill Degnan via cctalk <cctalk at classiccmp.org wrote:
I wasn't there, but I've never seen any source claim that it was a nickname.
eventually becoming the official name of what was originally the Alto Aloha
> Network.
I've never heard of an Alto being connected to an Aloha Network, nor of any
network inside Xerox being called "Aloha".
Ethernet was the name given to the Alto (XEROX) Aloha
Network
It wasn't an Aloha Network.
created (?)
by Bob Metcalff (sp?), which was based/inspired by an
improved version of
the ALOHANET used by the U of Hawaii.
In their CACM paper, Metcalfe and Boggs credit the Aloha Network, but
Ethernet was an entirely new network design, not an incremental improvement
to Aloha Network.
I think Ethernet was a nickname,