Ethernet names...

[Josh Dersch]

To the best of my knowledge, at the time it was developed at PARC in
1973/74, it was referred to as "Ethernet" (or "The Ethernet") and later was
referred to as "Xerox Experimental Ethernet" likely to differentiate it
from the developing 10mbit standards...

- Josh


On Tue, Oct 2, 2018 at 10:47 AM 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
> >
>