Word: ethernet
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Gram shops in Oregon. Another yokes travel agents to airlines and hotels around the world. Others bind together bank tellers, brokers, car rental chains, defense contractors, factory robots, police departments, university labs, intelligence agencies and the vast U.S. military machine. Says Robert Metcalfe, inventor of the networking system called Ethernet: "It's like one big nervous system...
...chief rival is Ethernet, a system first devised eleven years ago by Xerox and adopted by such companies as Digital Equipment and Intel. Ethernet already has 30,000 users and costs only about $500 per connection, compared with the $800 that IBM is expected to cost. Another competitor, American Telephone and Telegraph, has introduced three networks...
Xerox was one of the first companies to develop a local network system, Ethernet, which was announced in 1979 after six years of research. The firm has been hurt in recent years by slumping copier sales, but it hopes that Ethernet will help it regain its prominent position in office equipment. Xerox encouraged Digital Equipment Corp. to make computers that can run on its system, and has sold licenses for a nominal $1,000 to some 100 other companies to build compatible equipment. Says John Shoch, deputy general manager of office systems: "We don't sell Ethernet. We sell...