I remember having a conversation with my dead 1-2 decades ago about switched ethernet. he was involved in network protocol development back in the 70s and was

I remember having a conversation with my dead 1-2 decades ago about switched ethernet. he was involved in network protocol development back in the 70s and was very familiar with AlohaNet and how ethernet borrowed from it. but had moved in a different direction in the decades since When I mentioned switched ethernet, he looked at me blankly and said something along the lines of (take some of it as hyperbole). "that's not ethernet? the whole point of ethernet is dealing with collisions. it's not ethernet without a medium where colluions can happen. heck, if we could have given everyone a private link, networking would have been easy"