8-bitters and multi-whatever

[Pete Turnbull]

On 12/09/2007 19:18, Roy J. Tellason wrote:
> On Tuesday 11 September 2007 07:50, Allison wrote:

>>> I know of ARCnet,  went to a short seminar on that once at a trade show, 
>>> and in fact even have a couple of ISA cards around here someplace, 
>>> though I don't forsee me ever using them.

>> ARCnet and most of the 'nets were in the price range of a hard disk then.
>> Also the whole idea of networking was new.  For example in 1982 the two
>> largest networks I knew of were DEC (internal) and Dupont(internal) and
>> they were around 50 nodes!

ARCnet is still alive in some building management systems.  The people 
who do some of them for our University use it, to my disgust.  They run 
long copper cables between buildings and then wonder why it stops 
working during thunderstorms.

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Pete						Peter Turnbull
						Network Manager
						University of York