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 < [email protected]> 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 < > [email protected]> 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 > > >
