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From: wunder@HPSDEL.SDE.HP.COM (Walter Underwood)
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Subject: Re: Wither Ethernet?
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Date: 25 May 90 22:38:54 GMT
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If find it really amusing that the vendor independent standard, IEEE
802, is mostly used for proprietary protocols (HP, IBM, and Apple),
while the proprietary standard, Ethernet (remember DEC, Intel, and
Xerox?)  carries all the multi-vendor protocols.

Just goes to show that you can't judge a standard by its cover.

wunder

PS:  Nearly all HP equipment can talk Ethernet and ARP these days.
Only one OS, MPE/XL, is still 802-only, and Ethernet is scheduled
for release on that, too.