[ih] Early History of the Internet

[Dave Crocker]

On 1/10/2024 12:03 PM, Karl Auerbach via Internet-history wrote:
> I first became aware of that work in the rather early 1970s when I was 
> at SDC.  Frank Heinrich (one of Farber's students) had worked on a 
> distributed file system for DCS.

When Dave showed me one of the network cards for DCS, the 
token-vs-contention battles were underway.  He explained some aspects of 
the card, including the part that did token resolution at startup.

It took a quarter of the real-estate and used a contention-based 
scheme.  Given this, it seemed clear to me that, absent extremely strong 
needs for highly predictable access times, this meant that Ethernet 
would win handily.

d/

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