Composite sketch of Ethernet showing "ETHER!"
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- Description
- Date
- 1972
- Credit Line
- Courtesy of the PARC Library
- Copyright Owner
- © PARC (Palo Alto Research Center, Incorporated)
- Object ID
- 500004469
The Ethernet protocol let a computer send a message whenever the wire was quiet. Every computer received every message, but ignored messages not for it. If two messages collided, they were sent again later.
