Re: TCP adoption in 1984
Karl Auerbach via Internet-history <[email protected]>
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Those early Ethernet cards for PC's were sometimes quite troublesome. And that AUI connector (and slide lock), oy! The 3COM 3C501 (used by many of us who were using John Romkey/Dave Bridgham's PC/IP) were very much half duplex and could not turn around from send to receive fast enough to avoid missing responses from a fast peer. When we built the TRW2000 Ethernet card for the ULANA bid we used Intel's Ethernet controller - 82256? - apparently had a flaw in the mask that caused the chip to get really, really hot (which I discovered much to my finger's unhappiness.) That chipset was a real pain to write code for. My own first use of Ethernet was in 1980, when I was with Interactive Systems, at a trade show in Houston. I think we used gear from Ungermann-Bass for terminal attachment. Someone did not like the yellow color of the cable, so we ended up painting it. (I also ended up getting married.) We used yellow hose ethernet for the not-quite Interop show net in 1987 and for the first Interop show net in 1988. When we met twisted pair Ethernet we went for it in an instant. I suspect that there are pieces of our yellow hose still in the cable trays in the parking lots of the San Jose convention center. One of the biggest and most useful improvements to Ethernet came when Lantronix came out with an AUI media adaptor with indicator LEDs. Those indicators were invaluable. I'm blanking right now on the name of the person who came up with that awful AUI slide lock - he has since apologized to the universe. --karl-- -- Internet-history mailing list [email protected] https://elists.isoc.org/mailman/listinfo/internet-history - Unsubscribe: https://app.smartsheet.com/b/form/9b6ef0621638436ab0a9b23cb0668b0b?The%20list%20to%20be%20unsubscribed%20from=Internet-history