[ih] "This is the History of Ethernet."

[Brian E Carpenter]

Yes, DIX was very important. Especially, at that time, people took Digital and Intel much more seriously than a copying machine company. Xerox PARC was of course a wonderful place, but only in the eyes of the research community. DIX made Ethernet plausible for non-research users. Which ultimately saved us from Token Ring everywhere.

Regards
    Brian Carpenter

On 22-Aug-24 03:32, Tom Lyon via Internet-history wrote:
> Good history of the *standardization* of Ethernet, but not the history of
> deployment of DIX and how that became the de-facto standard.
> 
> On Wed, Aug 21, 2024 at 8:05 AM Jared E. Richo via Internet-history <
> internet-history at elists.isoc.org> wrote:
> 
>>
>> https://x.com/danieldibswe/status/1826137555605049601
>>
>> This is the most research I've done for a blog post. Ever. It's taken
>> months, reviewing hundreds of papers, standards, RFCs, interviews, etc.
>> I was lucky to get to talk to some people from the original P802.
>>
>> This is the History of Ethernet.
>>
>>
>>
>> https://lostintransit.se/2024/08/21/ethernet-history-deepdive-why-do-we-have-different-frame-types/
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