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

[Dave Crocker]

On 8/21/2024 3:06 PM, John Levine via Internet-history wrote:
> It's quite impressive that forty years later Ethernet has the same
> logical formats as the Ethernet that ran on thick yellow coax, even
> though at the hardware level practically nothing is the same.


It is a lesson about interfaces versus internals.  The current internals 
typically have nothing to do with the original scheme.

Another example of that lesson was Netbios, where only the i/f spec was 
available and various TCP/IP-based solutions eventually led to RFC 
1001/1002, independent of IBM's (and Sytek's) original, proprietary spec.

d/

-- 
Dave Crocker
Brandenburg InternetWorking
bbiw.net
mast:@dcrocker at mastodon.social