networked games 1972 to 1988

[Chuck Guzis]

On 14 Jun 2007 at 3:39, der Mouse wrote:

> They must be able to at least tolerate it without frying; that's
> basically what you get if you connect two hosts with a straight cable -
> or a host and hub with a crossed cable - so there'd be a lot of toasted
> hardware if it weren't at least relatively harmless.
> 
> > Anyway, what you're suggesting would connect all the Tx pairs
> > together (A to B, then B to C).
> 
> Doh!  Of course.  Oh well.  So much for cheap pseudo-token-ring
> Ethernets. :-/

Er, isn't what you're suggesting very akin to RS-485?  

Cheers,
Chuck