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- From: philip@utstat.toronto.edu (Philip McDunnough)
- Subject: Re: GS+AFP Unix server
- Message-ID: <C19MB2.C4E@utstat.toronto.edu>
- Organization: University of Toronto, Dept. of Statistics
- References: <1993Jan18.141248.21654@actrix.gen.nz> <1993Jan20.164316.29279@eskimo.com> <C187IL.GJ5@rice.edu>
- Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 17:09:02 GMT
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- In article <C187IL.GJ5@rice.edu> jimwong@owlnet.rice.edu (Jim Wong) writes:
- >In article <1993Jan20.164316.29279@eskimo.com> lurch@eskimo.com (Erik Kloeppel) writes:
- >>
- >>My apologies.. I did mean localtalk (which is a joke, I'm sorry) I have
- >>NOT seen Ethertalk yet (though I intend to) and To
- >
- >Joke it may be, but it lets me network my GS and my Mac for about $35.
- >Not to mention the fact that there are situations in which the speed
- >advantage of Ethernet simply isn't relevant.
-
- That is very true. Localtalk is hardly a joke though. The throughput gains
- for Ethertalk'd networked are not that great for the most part. On the other
- hand there is a new 100BaseVG (proposed ?) standard which would be 10 times
- faster than the current Ethernet specifications.
-
- Philip McDunnough
- philip@utstat.toronto.edu
-
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