Ethernet names...

I was trying to remember what we called it at MIT (which had one), but my memory was hazy, so I want back and looked at the sources for the packet switch I wrote (which supported the first Ethernet, before the 10Mbit version even came out), and I found (slightly to my suprise) that it was "3Mbit Experimental Ethernet", or just plain "Exerimental Ethernet". (Of course, that was just MIT - other sites may have had different terminology.) No doubt we renamed it once the 10Mbit version showed up - I can probably search for early versions of the code to confirm this, if anyone cares. Anyway, I'd vote for the latter, short name. Interesting! It looks (from the Notes) like this was gleaned from an interview with Metcalfe, and she was _very_ careful (I helped her with the technical details - you can find me in the Acks), so I'd tend to believe it. My _guess_ is that was his early, 'in his head' name for the thing, and when they set out to actually build it, it was re-named 'Ethernet' (as Al's memo search seems to indicate). Noel