On Tue, Oct 2, 2018 at 10:55 PM Eric Smith via cctalk <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 2, 2018 at 7:38 PM Bill Degnan <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On Tue, Oct 2, 2018 at 7:46 PM Eric Smith via cctalk < > > [email protected]> 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
