Re: The Network from Heck ver 5.0

["Christopher D. Heer" <chris-heer.nospam@home.com.nospam>]

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> Christopher D. Heer wrote in message <6XeG6.2672

> >    3> Now you just need to add Netware!

> No, he needs a few Atari ST's in there,

Having never spent any time with those whatsoever, what are the networking
options?

> and no networrk from heck can call
> itself complete without FDDI

I don't think that's dead enough.  :)  FDDI is still used all over the
place.

> EISA FDDI cards are going forr as
> little as $15 on ebay,

EISA!  Wow.  There's something I haven't seen in a while.  I wonder if old
ALR EISA-based servers are collectible now.  :)

> so what's the excuse? (or if you have no choice but
> to sissy out on us, you could go with CDDI, which uses cat5. Pretty sure a
> crossover cable is an option.)

Hmmm.  I think CDDI wouldn't be so sissy; it was less common than FDDI, so
far as I have observed.

But if you're going to go obscure, why not the Thomas-Conrad TCNS?  The
original 100mb solution!  (Proprietary, shmietary.)

> PS oops! Just read it all more carefully. He is half there, with the
arcnet
> cards, that is. Boy do I feel dumb. ;)

2.5mb!  Woohoo!  Watch those node ID settings!
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