50 years later, creator of ethernet wins computing's top prize
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And with that one, you should have had coat in hand and half out the door. :laugh: Although I'm glad you didn't go with tolkien ring.
Jack of all trades, master of none, though often times better than master of one.
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Kent Sharkey wrote:
I hope the prize isn't some token ring
It's more ethereal than that .
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I'm happy for Bob. But I think the thing that made Ethernet jump forward was the Ethernet Switch. The nice thing about Token Ring and ARCnet was using a token for control gave a deterministic time of response. Once switches became common, Ethernet exploded. A round 1995 I supported a school district that had several class room computer labs. They booted MS DOS 6.x and Windows 3.11 from a diskless 286 computer using a 10BaseT NIC with a boot ROM pulling data from a common Novell 3.x Server. Each room had about 20 -30 computers and they all got switched on at about the same time. Loading took a while. They were on the same (collision) network, not separated by routers. We added a 3Com 24-port switch for one of the rooms. It was a miracle. Additional switches were budgeted quickly. At the time 3Com was doing a lot of promotion and training through distributors of these unmanaged rack mount switches. They weren't cheap, but they were worth it.
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