On Tue, Oct 2, 2018, 11:47 Bill Degnan via cctalk <cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote:
> Ethernet was the name given to the Alto (XEROX) Aloha Network It wasn't an Aloha Network. created (?) > by Bob Metcalff (sp?), which was based/inspired by an improved version of > the ALOHANET used by the U of Hawaii. In their CACM paper, Metcalfe and Boggs credit the Aloha Network, but Ethernet was an entirely new network design, not an incremental improvement to Aloha Network. I think Ethernet was a nickname, > I wasn't there, but I've never seen any source claim that it was a nickname. eventually becoming the official name of what was originally the Alto Aloha > Network. > I've never heard of an Alto being connected to an Aloha Network, nor of any network inside Xerox being called "Aloha".
