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From: Rick Hamell <hamellr@heorot.1nova.com>
To: Ted Mittelstaedt <tedm@toybox.placo.com>
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Subject: RE: 100baseVG
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> > 	The technology was one of those dead-end ones. As far as I could
> > tell only HP ever really sold it. From what I've heard - VG technology was
> > only on the market for about 5 months... most everything out there now is
> > used stock people are dumping.
> 
> Oh, boy, you know how to stir up trouble, don't you! :-)

	It's my nature... :)

> AnyLan was developed by both HP and AT&T, AT&T did the ASIC.  The truth
> is that AnyLan was technically superior to 100BaseT, but it required
> all 4 pairs to accomplish this.  That is really what killed it - there
> were too many places that pair-split back then.
> 
> Another big problem with it was that the NIC's that HP made that were
> AnyLan have a serious hardware bug - they would make the machine
> crash if they were configured into PIO mode.  You had to configure them into
> shared memory mode.
> 
> But, AnyLan lasted quite a bit longer than 5 months.  HP was making hubs for
> it
> for several years, and a number of big organizations got into it.

	That's all more information then I got... teach me to rely upon
anything from a "technical" sales person... :) Even if they do seem to
know what they're talking about... :)

	Rick


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