Igor Delovski Board

[Ike]

Slashdot: Ethernet Creator Makes the Inventors Hall of Fame

"Ethernet is right up there with magnetic resonance imaging, the LP record,
air bags, and soft contact lenses. So says the National Inventors Hall of
Fame, which included Bob Metcalfe, inventor of the ubiquitous LAN technology,
in its latest round of inductees."

[Ike]

Xerox 1974: Ethernet would be a failure

"Here’s a memo from a Xerox PARC (engineer, I presume), Robert Bachrach,
to Bob Metcalf and Dave Boggs suggesting that the Ethernet approach to
networking can’t possible meet the necessary requirements (notably bandwidth
performance) because it’s based on an uncontrolled random transmission
timing, as opposed to a controlled, synchronous sharing of the transmission
medium."

[delovski]

bbg - Photo and original diagram of the world's first ethernet cable

"Behind an ordinary door in a nondescript room hosting several printers and
copiers at PARC is the world's first Ethernet cable. In 1973, Bob Metcalfe se-
nt an internal memo to his colleagues at Xerox proposing a local system of
interacting workstations, files, and printers."