3Mb Ethernet and Holy Wars

1/ Almost the 49th birthday of Ethernet (3Mb)! Here's another History lesson and a story about my role in "holy wars" with 3Mb Ethernet and UNIX. Few people realize how long-lived and widespread 3Mb Ethernet became... 🧵 2/ May 22, 1973 is considered the birthday of "3 Megabit" Ethernet, when Bob Metcalfe published his memo … Continue reading 3Mb Ethernet and Holy Wars

From Punched Cards to SmartNICs: A Personal Journey

Preface This series was originally a DriveScale blog series, and is recovered here thanks to the Internet Archive's Wayback machine. Intro One of the DriveScale predictions for 2020 is that 2020 is the year of the SmartNIC! But, what is a SmartNIC? In this blog series – covering 7 decades – you’ll learn more than … Continue reading From Punched Cards to SmartNICs: A Personal Journey

Ethernet History – The Switching Abomination

0/ More Ethernet history? Learn why Ethernet Switching is an (extremely successful) ABOMINATION!!! 1/ So, the DEC/Intel/Xerox 10Mb Ethernet spec came out in 1980. The same year, ISO published a draft of the 7 layer OSI model (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OSI_model) 2/ Now, unlike the later OSI *protocols*, the OSI *model* was widely regarded as a good thing, … Continue reading Ethernet History – The Switching Abomination