Ethernet names...

Al Kossow aek at bitsavers.org
Tue Oct 2 19:47:41 CDT 2018



On 10/2/18 4:45 PM, Eric Smith via cctalk wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 2, 2018, 11:47 Bill Degnan via cctalk <cctalk at classiccmp.org>

> I've never heard of an Alto being connected to an Aloha Network, nor of any
> network inside Xerox being called "Aloha".
> 

I just went back and reviewed every memo I can find that I have access to (going
back to March, 1974 when there were three Nova Ethernet boards and two Alto Ethernet
boards, and they are consistently calling it "Ethernet". In fact, the word "Aloha"
never appears.




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