[ih] XEROX/PUP and Commercialization (was Re: FYI - Gordon Crovitz/WSJ on "Who Really Invented the Internet?")

[LarrySheldon at cox.net (Larry Sheldon)]

On 7/23/2012 4:43 PM, Noel Chiappa wrote:

> (And, BTW, Hilzik is occasionally confused, too - I was amused to read that,
> according to him, Ethernet is a "a protocol".)

It isn't?  Really?  Damn.  After all these years.

What is it?

http://netcert.tripod.com/ccna/internetworking/layer2.html

Is it possible that people here are poseurs?

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