2 Oct
2018
2 Oct
'18
6:38 p.m.
On Tue, Oct 2, 2018 at 7:46 PM Eric Smith via cctalk <cctalk at classiccmp.org>
wrote:
On Tue, Oct 2, 2018, 11:47 Bill Degnan via cctalk
<cctalk at classiccmp.org>
wrote:
Ethernet was the name given to the Alto (XEROX)
Aloha Network
It wasn't an Aloha Network.
There is a difference between Alohanet and the alto aloha network. created (?)
Inspired by, but I did not claim them to be the same, just for the record.
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,
I wasn't there, but I've never seen any source claim that it was a
nickname.
I later looked this up to confirm. See where wizards stay up lote by Katie
Halner and matthew lyon.
eventually becoming the official name of what was
originally the Alto Aloha
Well there you go, now you have
b
Network.
I've never heard of an Alto being connected to an Aloha Network, nor of any
network inside Xerox being called "Aloha".