16 Oct
2025
16 Oct
'25
2:29 p.m.
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