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- From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
- Subject: Re: Sparc 10's are 10BASE-T
- Message-ID: <By346I.9F6@zoo.toronto.edu>
- Date: Sat, 21 Nov 1992 21:11:04 GMT
- References: <1992Nov19.003959.6608@news2.cis.umn.edu> <jstewart.722147880@cunews> <1992Nov19.211710.18256@ntmtv> <1992Nov20.140407.8507@ccd.harris.com>
- Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
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- In article <1992Nov20.140407.8507@ccd.harris.com> cone@controls.ccd.harris.com (Tom Cone) writes:
- >SUN must have figured out a way to get more money from us. Oh ofcourse
- >we support AUI. Then later you find out you have to pay more to do it.
- >It must be cheaper(I know it is) for them to build...
-
- "Never attribute to malice what can be adequately explained by stupidity."
-
- I haven't seen the Sparc 10 hardware, but most any modern system designer
- will try hard to get the guts of the system onto a single board, and this
- makes board-edge space very precious. That AUI connector plus slide lock
- is big, and if you figure that most of your (big) customers are going to
- be using 10BaseT like sensible people (it really is the *right* way to
- Ethernet individual offices and workstations, except in special cases),
- then it makes sense to banish the AUI connection off the edge and require
- an extra cable to bring it out.
-
- The stupidity comes in when you neglect to tell people about it.
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- MS-DOS is the OS/360 of the 1980s. | Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology
- -Hal W. Hardenbergh (1985)| henry@zoo.toronto.edu utzoo!henry
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