Duba wurin da ke ƙasa sannan ka amsa tambayar daga baya a cikin harshe ɗaya kamar yadda wurin yake:  Passage: Ƙara yawan buƙata da amfani da kwamfutoci a jami'o'i da dakunan bincike a ƙarshen shekarun 1960 ya haifar da buƙatar samar da haɗin kai mai sauri tsakanin tsarin kwamfuta. Rahoton 1970 daga Lawrence Radiation Laboratory wanda ke ba da cikakken bayani game da ci gaban cibiyar sadarwar su ta "Octopus" ya ba da kyakkyawar alama game da halin da ake ciki. An kirkiro wasu fasahohin LAN na gwaji da na farko a cikin shekarun 1970. An kirkiro Cambridge Ring ne a Jami'ar Cambridge wanda ya fara a shekarar 1974. An haɓaka Ethernet a Xerox PARC tsakanin 1973 da 1974. ARCNET da aka ci gaba da Datapoint Corporation a 1976 da kuma sanar a 1977. Yana da shigarwa na farko na kasuwanci a watan Disamba na 1977 a Chase Manhattan Bank a New York. Ci gaba da yaduwar kwamfutoci na sirri ta amfani da tsarin CP / M a ƙarshen 1970s, kuma daga baya tsarin tushen DOS wanda ya fara a 1981, yana nufin cewa shafuka da yawa sun girma zuwa dozin ko ma daruruwan kwamfutoci. Ƙarfin farko na hanyar sadarwa shine don raba ajiya da firintoci, duka biyun sun kasance masu tsada a lokacin. Akwai babbar sha'awa ga manufar, kuma shekaru da yawa, daga kimanin 1983 gaba, masana masana'antar kwamfuta za su yi shelar shekara mai zuwa a matsayin, "Shekarar LAN".A aikace, manufar ta lalace ne ta hanyar yaduwar yanayin jiki mara jituwa da aiwatar da yarjejeniyar cibiyar sadarwa, da kuma hanyoyin da yawa na raba albarkatu. Yawanci, kowane mai siyarwa zai sami nau'in katin cibiyar sadarwa, kebul, yarjejeniya, da tsarin aiki na cibiyar sadarwa. Magani ya bayyana tare da bayyanar Novell NetWare wanda ya ba da tallafi mara kyau ga yawancin katunan gasa da nau'ikan kebul, da kuma tsarin aiki mai matukar wayewa fiye da yawancin masu fafatawa. Netware ya mamaye kasuwancin LAN na kwamfutar mutum daga farkon bayan gabatarwar sa a 1983 har zuwa tsakiyar 1990s lokacin da Microsoft ya gabatar da Windows NT. Daga cikin masu fafatawa da NetWare, Banyan Vines ne kawai ke da irin wannan ƙarfin fasaha, amma Banyan bai taɓa samun tushe mai aminci ba. 3Com ta samar da 3+Share da...  Tambaya: Wanene 3 Com ya yi aiki tare don ƙirƙirar sabobin?
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