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Did Xerox really develop the first LAN?
Announcing the arrival of Valued Associate #679: Cesar Manara
Planned maintenance scheduled April 17/18, 2019 at 00:00UTC (8:00pm US/Eastern)Was there any commercially available graphical interfaces before the apple Lisa?Were people building FPGAs out of TTL logic prior to the first sales in 1984?How was the Microsoft PDP-10 8080 emulator developed?How was the Traf-O-Data 8008 simulator developed?Amiga versus Atari ST computer introductionsThe almost-was Atari IBM PCLabor input for manufacture of early personal computersPatent barriers to IBM mainframe compatibility?IBM would-be purchase of CP/MDid Xerox engineers really develop the first OOP programming language?
Did the computer scientist at Xerox really develop the first LAN, but had no backing from the company to further develop these technologies, later showing this to both Steve Jobs and Bill Gates?
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Again, without a definition what consists a LAN in context of this question, there weill be no useful answer. Networks between computers have been available since the 1950s.
– Raffzahn
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I think it is false to claim that Xerox did not back Ethernet or that it did not participate in its further development.
– Ken Gober
8 hours ago
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Did the computer scientist at Xerox really develop the first LAN, but had no backing from the company to further develop these technologies, later showing this to both Steve Jobs and Bill Gates?
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Again, without a definition what consists a LAN in context of this question, there weill be no useful answer. Networks between computers have been available since the 1950s.
– Raffzahn
10 hours ago
2
I think it is false to claim that Xerox did not back Ethernet or that it did not participate in its further development.
– Ken Gober
8 hours ago
add a comment |
Again, without a definition what consists a LAN in context of this question, there weill be no useful answer. Networks between computers have been available since the 1950s.
– Raffzahn
10 hours ago
2
I think it is false to claim that Xerox did not back Ethernet or that it did not participate in its further development.
– Ken Gober
8 hours ago
Again, without a definition what consists a LAN in context of this question, there weill be no useful answer. Networks between computers have been available since the 1950s.
– Raffzahn
10 hours ago
Again, without a definition what consists a LAN in context of this question, there weill be no useful answer. Networks between computers have been available since the 1950s.
– Raffzahn
10 hours ago
2
2
I think it is false to claim that Xerox did not back Ethernet or that it did not participate in its further development.
– Ken Gober
8 hours ago
I think it is false to claim that Xerox did not back Ethernet or that it did not participate in its further development.
– Ken Gober
8 hours ago
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Xerox developed ethernet. Was there a local area network preceding ethernet?
There was certainly wide area networking before ethernet, e.g. ARPANET dating from 1969.
There was also local networking even earlier, e.g. the IBM 1401, sold as a small mainframe in its own right, also ended up being used as a peripheral controller for larger mainframes; this arrangement could be called a network. But one feels it was not quite the same thing. So what was novel about the Xerox LAN?
Ethernet was designed to be a purely local network among peer workstations. And I think the Xerox Alto was the first general-purpose workstation in the sense that term came to be used.
So if you use the term LAN in that particular sense, I think the answer is yes, ethernet was the first.
answered 8 hours ago
rwallacerwallace
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ARCNET was developed during the same period as Ethernet and released the same year, 1976. ALOHA was from 1971, predating both. ALOHA directly inspired Ether. ALOHA, however, was not captive to a wire and was very wide area.
– Maury Markowitz
5 hours ago
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@MauryMarkowitz - this should a an answer - because it is.
– Peter M.
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Xerox developed the Ethernet, which is a LAN, but most likely not the first LAN.
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Xerox developed ethernet. Was there a local area network preceding ethernet?
There was certainly wide area networking before ethernet, e.g. ARPANET dating from 1969.
There was also local networking even earlier, e.g. the IBM 1401, sold as a small mainframe in its own right, also ended up being used as a peripheral controller for larger mainframes; this arrangement could be called a network. But one feels it was not quite the same thing. So what was novel about the Xerox LAN?
Ethernet was designed to be a purely local network among peer workstations. And I think the Xerox Alto was the first general-purpose workstation in the sense that term came to be used.
So if you use the term LAN in that particular sense, I think the answer is yes, ethernet was the first.
answered 8 hours ago
rwallacerwallace
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ARCNET was developed during the same period as Ethernet and released the same year, 1976. ALOHA was from 1971, predating both. ALOHA directly inspired Ether. ALOHA, however, was not captive to a wire and was very wide area.
– Maury Markowitz
5 hours ago
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@MauryMarkowitz - this should a an answer - because it is.
– Peter M.
5 hours ago
add a comment |
Xerox developed ethernet. Was there a local area network preceding ethernet?
There was certainly wide area networking before ethernet, e.g. ARPANET dating from 1969.
There was also local networking even earlier, e.g. the IBM 1401, sold as a small mainframe in its own right, also ended up being used as a peripheral controller for larger mainframes; this arrangement could be called a network. But one feels it was not quite the same thing. So what was novel about the Xerox LAN?
Ethernet was designed to be a purely local network among peer workstations. And I think the Xerox Alto was the first general-purpose workstation in the sense that term came to be used.
So if you use the term LAN in that particular sense, I think the answer is yes, ethernet was the first.
answered 8 hours ago
rwallacerwallace
10.9k455162
2
ARCNET was developed during the same period as Ethernet and released the same year, 1976. ALOHA was from 1971, predating both. ALOHA directly inspired Ether. ALOHA, however, was not captive to a wire and was very wide area.
– Maury Markowitz
5 hours ago
1
@MauryMarkowitz - this should a an answer - because it is.
– Peter M.
5 hours ago
add a comment |
Xerox developed ethernet. Was there a local area network preceding ethernet?
There was certainly wide area networking before ethernet, e.g. ARPANET dating from 1969.
There was also local networking even earlier, e.g. the IBM 1401, sold as a small mainframe in its own right, also ended up being used as a peripheral controller for larger mainframes; this arrangement could be called a network. But one feels it was not quite the same thing. So what was novel about the Xerox LAN?
Ethernet was designed to be a purely local network among peer workstations. And I think the Xerox Alto was the first general-purpose workstation in the sense that term came to be used.
So if you use the term LAN in that particular sense, I think the answer is yes, ethernet was the first.
answered 8 hours ago
rwallacerwallace
10.9k455162
Xerox developed ethernet. Was there a local area network preceding ethernet?
There was certainly wide area networking before ethernet, e.g. ARPANET dating from 1969.
There was also local networking even earlier, e.g. the IBM 1401, sold as a small mainframe in its own right, also ended up being used as a peripheral controller for larger mainframes; this arrangement could be called a network. But one feels it was not quite the same thing. So what was novel about the Xerox LAN?
Ethernet was designed to be a purely local network among peer workstations. And I think the Xerox Alto was the first general-purpose workstation in the sense that term came to be used.
So if you use the term LAN in that particular sense, I think the answer is yes, ethernet was the first.
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ARCNET was developed during the same period as Ethernet and released the same year, 1976. ALOHA was from 1971, predating both. ALOHA directly inspired Ether. ALOHA, however, was not captive to a wire and was very wide area.
– Maury Markowitz
5 hours ago
1
@MauryMarkowitz - this should a an answer - because it is.
– Peter M.
5 hours ago
add a comment |
2
ARCNET was developed during the same period as Ethernet and released the same year, 1976. ALOHA was from 1971, predating both. ALOHA directly inspired Ether. ALOHA, however, was not captive to a wire and was very wide area.
– Maury Markowitz
5 hours ago
1
@MauryMarkowitz - this should a an answer - because it is.
– Peter M.
5 hours ago
2
2
ARCNET was developed during the same period as Ethernet and released the same year, 1976. ALOHA was from 1971, predating both. ALOHA directly inspired Ether. ALOHA, however, was not captive to a wire and was very wide area.
– Maury Markowitz
5 hours ago
ARCNET was developed during the same period as Ethernet and released the same year, 1976. ALOHA was from 1971, predating both. ALOHA directly inspired Ether. ALOHA, however, was not captive to a wire and was very wide area.
– Maury Markowitz
5 hours ago
1
1
@MauryMarkowitz - this should a an answer - because it is.
– Peter M.
5 hours ago
@MauryMarkowitz - this should a an answer - because it is.
– Peter M.
5 hours ago
add a comment |
Xerox developed the Ethernet, which is a LAN, but most likely not the first LAN.
answered 9 hours ago
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Xerox developed the Ethernet, which is a LAN, but most likely not the first LAN.
answered 9 hours ago
JustmeJustme
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Xerox developed the Ethernet, which is a LAN, but most likely not the first LAN.
answered 9 hours ago
JustmeJustme
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Xerox developed the Ethernet, which is a LAN, but most likely not the first LAN.
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Again, without a definition what consists a LAN in context of this question, there weill be no useful answer. Networks between computers have been available since the 1950s.
– Raffzahn
10 hours ago
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I think it is false to claim that Xerox did not back Ethernet or that it did not participate in its further development.
– Ken Gober
8 hours ago