Ethernet: The Unibus of the 80s (UART of the 90s)

Ethernet: The Unibus of the 80s (UART of the 90s)

Ethernet designed for

Ethernet evolved into a hodge podge of nets and boxes

Distributed computing was very hard, evolving into

Internet is less hierarchical, democratic, peer-peer

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Notes:

In the same way that Unibus allows all computers components to communicate, an Ethernet allows all computers to communicate equally.