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The Alto-Dolphin-Dorado Briefing Blurb or Exploring the Ethernet with Mouse and Keyboard BY LYLE RAMSHAW A revision of: A Field Guide to Alto-Land, by ROY LEVIN This document is for Xerox internal use only MAY 1981 XEROX PALO ALTO RESEARCH CENTER 3333 Coyote Hill Road / Palo Alto / California 94304 Raison d'Etre Are you a programmer? Are you sick of manuals that tell you how to use a software system without telling you why it behaves as it does? Are you flustrated because you don't know the unstated assumptions behind the interesting discussions you hear around you? Have you ever wanted to browse through the source code or the documentation for a program, but couldn't figure out where to find it? If the answer to some of these questions is "yes", read on! These and other useful (and occasionally entertaining) tidbits shall be made known unto you. You will doubtless read many documents while you are at Xerox. A common convention observed in many manuals and memos is that fine points or items of complex technical content peripheral to the main discussion appear in small type, like this paragraph. You will soon discover that you cannot resist reading this fine print and that, despite its diminutive stature, it draws your eyes like a magnet. This document has such passages as well, just so that you can begin to enjoy ferreting out the diamonds in the mountain of coal. There is a great deal of useful infOlmation available on-line Oat Xerox in the form of documents and source program listings. Reading them is often very helpful, but finding them can be a nuisance. Throughout this document, references to on-line material are indicated by {n}, where n is a citation number in the bibliography at the end of this document. Standard citations to the open literature appear as [n). Reading a document from front to back can be mighty boring. This document is organized so that you can (supposedly) browse through and read the parts that look interesting. In fact, the current version of this document is so disorganized that it is not at all clear that there really is a front and a back in the normal sense! This means that the usual bottom-up approach to documentation (define your terms before you use them) has been abandoned. Instead, all the relevant terms, acronyms, and the like have been collected in a glossary at the end. Some information is contained only in the glossary, so you may want to scan through it later (or now, for that matter). It is assumed that you have a basic knowledge of computer science, and a modicum of common sense. Don't expect to find terms like "computer" and "network" in the glossary. The Alto-Dolphin-Dorado Briefing Blurb 2 Alto-Dolphin