NEW HIGH-SPEED COMMUNICATIONS BUS: Xerox Corporation recently made a public announcement of a new concept of processor-to-processor communications intended for an office environment. This novel concept is called "Ethernet", and is a result of some of the work being done in their research labs. In this concept, a single coaxial cable is used as a high-speed communications bus between all processors; communication protocol is handled through software or software supplemented by special-purpose hardware. Rumor has it that an Ethernet processor is now being developed by some form of joint arrangement between Xerox and Intel.
Download old BYTE magazines from here: https://www.americanradiohistory.com/Byte_Magazine.htm (but note URL has changed to worldradiohistory) https://www.worldradiohistory.com/Byte_Magazine.htm
Or higher quality scans here: https://archive.org/details/byte-magazine
Or Popular Electronics: https://www.americanradiohistory.com/Popular-Electronics-Gui...
Creative Computing: https://archive.org/details/creativecomputing
It's like a trip back in time.
BYTE magazine, April 1980, page 115.
NEW HIGH-SPEED COMMUNICATIONS BUS: Xerox Corporation recently made a public announcement of a new concept of processor-to-processor communications intended for an office environment. This novel concept is called "Ethernet", and is a result of some of the work being done in their research labs. In this concept, a single coaxial cable is used as a high-speed communications bus between all processors; communication protocol is handled through software or software supplemented by special-purpose hardware. Rumor has it that an Ethernet processor is now being developed by some form of joint arrangement between Xerox and Intel.