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- From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
- Subject: Re: Networking recommendation
- Message-ID: <Brutq7.3As@zoo.toronto.edu>
- Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1992 18:22:53 GMT
- References: <55590004@hpcc01.corp.hp.com> <1992Jul22.182937.643@zia.aoc.nrao.edu> <1992Jul23.130454.3965@ll.mit.edu>
- Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
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- In article <1992Jul23.130454.3965@ll.mit.edu> mikem@ll.mit.edu writes:
- >...there's no way to just take
- >the 15-pin ethernet ports of the 3/80s and wire them together. (Are there
- >any electronics wizards out there who'd like to say otherwise? Maybe it's
- >possible if you only have TWO workstations?)
-
- Not even if you have just two, not if you want something that will work
- reliably. The AUI (15-pin) interface is highly asymmetrical and there's
- no way to just cable one to another. (In particular, there has to be
- intelligence in between to do collision detection.)
- --
- There is nothing wrong with making | Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology
- mistakes, but... make *new* ones. -D.Sim| henry@zoo.toronto.edu utzoo!henry
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