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- From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
- Subject: Re: How to network 3-4 home machines cheaply?
- Message-ID: <Bz6MFM.G48@zoo.toronto.edu>
- Date: Sun, 13 Dec 1992 05:11:45 GMT
- References: <CSS.92Dec9123539@tron.stx.com> <1992Dec10.153444.9033@tinman.mke.ab.com> <Bz3w55.52o@zoo.toronto.edu> <1992Dec12.181452.6435@rwwa.COM>
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- In article <1992Dec12.181452.6435@rwwa.COM> witr@rwwa.com writes:
- >| In general, the best way to network small numbers of machines, all in one
- >| room, under controlled conditions so cable wear and tear is not an issue,
- >| is either a multiport transceiver with a null Ethernet (thinnet tee with
- >| a terminator on each branch -- some multiports have such a setup built
- >| in and accessible via a switch) or transceivers with thin coax.
- >
- >Assuming PC bus machines, I don't understand why one doesn't just use
- >typical thinwire-ready boards like WD/SMC/CLONES...
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- Those boards just have the transceivers built in; the same comments apply.
- I didn't elaborate along those lines because the original poster's hardware
- wasn't along those lines.
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- "God willing... we shall return." | Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology
- -Gene Cernan, the Moon, Dec 1972 | henry@zoo.toronto.edu utzoo!henry
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