Ethernet names...

[Bill Degnan]

On Tue, Oct 2, 2018 at 10:55 PM Eric Smith via cctalk <cctalk at classiccmp.org>
wrote:

> On Tue, Oct 2, 2018 at 7:38 PM Bill Degnan <billdegnan at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > On Tue, Oct 2, 2018 at 7:46 PM Eric Smith via cctalk <
> > cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote:
> > 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
> >
>
> Thanks! I stand corrected.
>

I think Metcalfe was just giving credit for where he got the idea of
letting packets collide like alohanet was doing.  He took their idea and
improved with collision detection and borrowed the name of his improvements
and subsequent network "The Alto Aloha Network" i.e. it was his improved
"alto" version of the concept inspired by alohanet.    In May 1973 (I later
found) he renamed his network system "Ethernet".  There were a number of
other more established networks out there at the time, this was just the
start.

I think this whole area of research is very interesting.

b