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Ethernet's Emergence from Xerox PARC --April 13, 2022 IEEE Webinar

Updated: Aug 31


Time

Speaker/Panelist(s)

Description

0:00:00

Tom Coughlin

Introduction to the IEEE Santa Clara Valley (SCV) Technology History Committee

0:01:44

Geoff Thompson

Introduction of panelists;  Agenda

0:18:21

Bob Metcalfe

Xerox PARC Ethernet:  Invention, key technologies and contributions

0:27:05

David Liddle

Initial Xerox Ethernet products;  Managing expectations for Ethernet in corporate Xerox

0:45:32

Gordon Bell

DEC VAX networking strategy;  Ethernet as "unifying key to 5th generation" computers

1:05:41

Bob Metcalfe

Consulting for DEC's interconnect strategy task force;  Petitioning Xerox to partner on Ethernet

1:08:47

David Liddle 

Managing Ethernet's emergence from Xerox;  Insisting on compliance to Ethernet license

1:12:08

Bob Metcalfe

Introducing Intel to Ethernet;  catalyst to start 3Com

1:13:57

Liddle, Shoch, Metcalfe

Interactions with IBM over Ethernet

1:19:10

David Liddle

Decision making culture at IBM & Xerox;  Xerox relinquishes trademark protection for Ethernet

1:22:56

Dave Redell, Rich Seifert

Collaboration between DEC, Intel, and Xerox (DIX) on the 10-mbps Ethernet "Blue Book" spec

1:31:37

Rich Seifert

Crafting a robust physical layer spec;  New DC-voltage-level detection of collisions on cable

1:37:21

Roy Ogus

Xerox SDD 3 and 10-mbps Ethernet/XeroxWire adapters for D0 and Dandelion workstations

1:43:04

Robert Garner

Show & tell: Tat Lam's Ethernet transceiver, Alto & Dandelion/Star workstations & Ethernet adapters

1:59:47

Bob Belleville

From minis to Macintosh's AppleTalk;  Intel 8086 PC prototype in Xerox SDD (Cub)

2:06:27

Thompson, Tom Gardner

Q&A session:

2:06:41

Rich Seifert

Did DEC & Intel prototype 10-mbps Ethernet adapters during DIX spec timeframe?

2:10:10

Hal Murray, Shoch, Siefert

Xerox's PUP & XNS internet protocols vs. TCP/IP;  Xerox's Ethernet infrastructure;  48b addresses

2:22:14

Geoff Thompson

Was Ethernet's progression from a few megabits/sec to today's gigabits/sec anticipated?

2:24:19

Thompson & Seifert

Why aren't Ethernet/Metcalfe & Boggs likened to Telegraph/Morse and Telephone/Bell?

2:25:56

Geoff Thompson

Thanks and acknowledgments!


 
 
 

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