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At that time, early LAN systems were just coming to market, including Ethernet, Token Ring and ARCNET.

This was a topic of major commercial effort at the time, dominating shows like the National Computer Conference ( NCC ) in Anaheim in May 1983.

Even at this time, Ethernet's widespread acceptance suggested it was to become a de facto standard.

It was at this show that Steve Jobs asked Gursharan Sidhu a seemingly innocuous question, " Why has networking not caught on?