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- From: scoggin@opus.ee.udel.edu (John K Scoggin)
- Subject: Re: Sparc 10's are 10BASE-T
- Message-ID: <1992Nov22.175244.7915@udel.edu>
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- References: <1992Nov19.211710.18256@ntmtv> <1992Nov20.140407.8507@ccd.harris.com> <By346I.9F6@zoo.toronto.edu>
- Date: Sun, 22 Nov 1992 17:52:44 GMT
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- In article <By346I.9F6@zoo.toronto.edu> henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer) writes:
- >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.
- >--
- >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
-
- One other advantage. If you mount your SPARCs under a console or in a rack,
- how many times have you had a ":"(*E^ AUI connector SLIP OFF? Slide locks
- just don't get it. A 10BaseT connection is MUCH more resistant to coming
- off...
-
- - john
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