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From: velasco@beowulf.ucsd.edu (Gabriel Velasco)
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Subject: networking amigas
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Date: 11 Apr 90 01:59:23 GMT
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Quoting Andrew Tanenbaum:

	The IEEE 802.3 standard is for a 1-persistent CSMA/CD LAN.
	[stuff deleted]
	The 802.3 standard has an interesting history.  The real
	beginning was Abramson's ALOHA system in Hawaii, to be
	discussed later in this chapter.  Later, carrier sensing
	was added, and Xerox built a 2.94-Mbps CSMA/CD system to
	connect over 100 personal workstations on a 1-km cable
	(Metcalfe and Boggs, 1976; Schoch, 1987).  This system
	was called Ethernet after the luminiferous ether, through
	which electromagnetic radiation was once thought to propagate.
	[stuff deleted]
	The Xerox Ethernet was so successful that Xerox, DEC, and Intel
	drew up a standard for a 10-Mbps Ethernet.  This standard
	formed the basis for 802.3.  The published 802.3 standard
	differs from the Ethernet specification in that it 
	describes a whole family of 1-persistent CSMA-CD systems,
	running at speeds from 1 to 10 Mbps on various media.
	[stuff deleted]
	Many people (incorrectly) use the name "Ethernet" in a 
	generic sense to refer to all CSMA/CD protocols, even though
	it really refers to a specific product that implements
	802.3.

Quoted from the second edition of _Computer Networks_ by Tanenbaum.


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