Ethernet names...

[Bill Degnan]

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 (?)
> > 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.
>


Inspired by, but I did not claim them to be the same, just for the record.


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

Well there you go, now you have

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