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Jobs ' earlier question to Sidhu had already sparked a number of ideas.

When AppleNet was cancelled in October, Sidhu led an effort to develop a new networking system based on the AppleBus hardware.

This new system would not have to conform to any existing preconceptions, and was designed to be worthy of the Mac-a system that was user-installable, had zero-configuration, and no fixed network addresses-in short, a true plug-and-play network.

Considerable effort was needed, but by the time the Mac was released the basic concepts had been outlined and some of the low-level protocols on their way to completion.

Sidhu mentioned the work to Belleville only two hours after the Mac was announced.