Ethernet names...

Bill Degnan billdegnan at gmail.com
Tue Oct 2 12:46:58 CDT 2018


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
>


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