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By 1987 Ethernet was clearly winning the standards battle over Token Ring, and in the middle of that year Apple introduced EtherTalk 1. 0 for the newly released Macintosh II computer.

The package included both a NuBus card with Ethernet ports and a new Network control panel that allowed the user to select which physical connection to use for networking ( from " Built-in " or " EtherTalk ").

The release's new networking stack also expanded the system to allow a full 255 nodes per LAN.

With its release, AppleTalk Personal Network was renamed LocalTalk.

Token Ring would eventually be supported with the similar TokenTalk product, which also used the same Network control panel and underlying software.

Many 3rd party companies would introduce compatible Ethernet and Token Ring cards that used these same drivers.