to any existing preconceptions, and was designed to be worthy of the Mac - a system that was user-installable and required no configuration or 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 were on their way to completion. Sidhu mentioned the work to Belleville only two hours after the Mac was announced.

The "new" AppleBus was announced in early 1984, allowing direct connection