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Happy Birthday Ethernet!
On this day in 1973, Robert Metcalfe circulated a memo outlining a rough schematic of how Ethernet should work. Metcalfe was working at XEROX PARC at the time, but he later went on to found 3Com.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Metcalfe
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Metcalfe
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OptionsTyrant1919 Member Posts: 519 ■■■□□□□□□□If Ethernet had one wish, what would it be?A+/N+/S+/L+/Svr+
MCSA:03/08/12/16 MCSE:03s/EA08/Core Infra
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Optionshypnotoad Banned Posts: 915Ethernet wishes that as ubiquitous as it is, it wasn't brought to its knees by a loop or a bad vtp update...
it requires some careful configuration to work right, but when it works right it is great.
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OptionsJDMurray Admin Posts: 13,026 AdminI miss reading Bob's column in InfoWorld.
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