16 Oct
2025
16 Oct
'25
2:52 p.m.
@Al Kossow:
The IBM document GG22-9422-0 is already on Bitsavers, so it's only fair
that DEC's response can also be found there, right?
So please could you preserve this piece of DEC, 3Com and Ethernet and
present it on bisavers?
Thanks,
Ulli
Am Do., 16. Okt. 2025 um 21:29 Uhr schrieb Paul Koning <
paulkoning(a)comcast.net>gt;:
On Oct 16, 2025, at 12:13 PM, Hans-Ulrich
Hölscher via cctalk <
cctalk(a)classiccmp.org> wrote:
Could you please publish the:
EE-EA345-42-001 The Digital/3Com Guide to IBM document # GG22-9422-0"
DEC document ?
Thanks
Ulli
Paul Koning via cctalk <cctalk(a)classiccmp.org> schrieb am Do., 16. Okt.
2025, 16:12:
> ...
>
> Around that time, IBM put out a marketing document that pretended to
show
> why token ring was better than Ethernet. The
DECnet architecture group
> (where I worked at the time) created a paragraph by paragraph rebuttal
to
> that and published it as a joint DEC/3Com
document. I still have it:
"The
> Digital/3Com Guide to IBM document #
GG22-9422-0" (DEC document
> EE-EA345-42-001). It doesn't seem to be online, Google has never heard
of
> it, nor the IBM document it rebuts. As I
recall, Bill Hawe was the lead
> author of that work; I wrote some bits and pieces for it but I don't
> remember the details.
I only have a paper copy (paperback style binding, I guess that's called
"perfect bound" in the industry).
Al Kossow, would you like it to scan? I can send it your way.
paul