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- From: paulr@fulcrum.oz.au (Paul Rosham)
- Subject: Re: Sparc 10's are 10BASE-T
- Message-ID: <1992Nov22.235920.16853@fulcrum.oz.au>
- Organization: The Fulcrum Consulting Group
- References: <1992Nov19.003959.6608@news2.cis.umn.edu> <jstewart.722147880@cunews> <1992Nov19.211710.18256@ntmtv> <1992Nov20.140407.8507@ccd.harris.com> <By346I.9F6@zoo.toronto.edu>
- Date: Sun, 22 Nov 1992 23:59:20 GMT
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- henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer) writes:
-
- >"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.
-
- In SunFLASH Vol 41 #36 in May 1992, i.e. when the machines were _announced_
- the "Adapter Cables" section states:
-
- Audio/AUI Adapter Cable X987A
-
- Note: For AUI Ethernet support, the SPARCengine 10 requires an Audio/AUI
- Adapter cable. This allows for both an audio and an AUI
- connection.
-
- -PaulR.
- [No snappy .sig today, sorry]
-