one-to-many messaging

[Tom Thomson]

> BT at the time swore blind that ``ethernet didn't work''

Might this have been the product of two factors?
(a) proximity or Martlesham Heath to Cambridge, influence of Needham and
Hooper and other ring men
(b) Martlesham's desire to own the whole stack (part of the pan-European
CCITT approach that gave us those amazing pieces of junk, ECMA (later
ISO) Transport classes 0 and 1)

Or had those wars died down by the time you are referring to?

Of course the fact that BT was right in the good old days is irrelevant
today, because today Ethernet works: we now use a star network with TWS
communication for the edges, which of course does work, and still call
it "Ethernet" after the good old shared media network with CSMA/CD,
which doesn't work - or at least doesn't work efficiently.  (And BT has
changed too, hasn't it - I doubt it could get such a question right
today)

M.