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Revision 42 . . December 5, 2001 6:33 am by The Anome [Moved MAC address into body of article]
Revision 41 . . December 5, 2001 6:14 am by The Anome [See also to MAC address]
Revision 40 . . (edit) November 30, 2001 7:11 am by The Anome [wikified traffic engineering]
Revision 39 . . November 5, 2001 4:22 am by The Anome [added mention of 10 Gig Ethernet]
  

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Ethernet as it is currently known was invented by [Bob Metcalfe]? and [D. R. Boggs]? while working at Xerox PARC in 1973.
Ethernet as it is currently known was invented by [Bob Metcalfe]? and [D. R. Boggs]? while working at Xerox PARC in 1973.

Ethernet uses a system of globally unque addresses called MAC addresses to ensure that all systems in an Ethernet have distinct addresses.

Removed: 37,39d38

See also:
*MAC address

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