[124878] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: what about 48 bits?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Kristoff)
Wed Apr 7 08:29:47 2010
Date: Wed, 7 Apr 2010 07:29:08 -0500
From: John Kristoff <jtk@cymru.com>
To: joel jaeggli <joelja@bogus.com>
In-Reply-To: <4BBBF5B4.8000906@bogus.com>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
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On Tue, 06 Apr 2010 23:02:12 -0400
joel jaeggli <joelja@bogus.com> wrote:
> > Ah, but what _caused_ Ethernet to become ubiquitous, given the
> > price was initially comparable?
>
> Early standardization.
In one of my other favorite books, Gigabit Ethernet, Rich Seifert says:
"[...] IBM was the only computer *systems* manufacturer actively
promoting a Token Ring-based strategy. Ultimately, the reason we
build networks is to attach the computers that supports the users'
applications. Network equipment vendors provide products to support
the interconnection of the computers, but the network is the means,
not the end. Ethernet had the necessary broad support from many
computer systems manufacturers from the very beginning, including not
only the original DIX consortium, but also major players like Sun
Microsystems, Hewlett-Packard, and dozens of others."
John
