Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2001 06:55:19 -1000 From: Terrance Young <tyoung@hmsa.com> To: Rik van Riel <riel@conectiva.com.br> Cc: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com>, Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org>, Max Khon <fjoe@iclub.nsu.ru>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: arcnet support for FreeBSD (request for review) Message-ID: <3B5710F6.93B2C42C@hmsa.com> References: <Pine.LNX.4.33L.0107191300080.8447-100000@imladris.rielhome.conectiva>
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Arcnet is pretty bullet proof (at least from what I've seen) sheesh the thing runs with open ended connectors, half eaten thru cable, splitters upon splitters upon splitters... well from what I've seen in some businesses it's a wonder its worked heh... Rik van Riel wrote: > On Thu, 19 Jul 2001, Terry Lambert wrote: > > Julian Elischer wrote: > > > > hi, there! > > > > > > what is arcnet? > > > > Old PC networking standard, limited to 2Mbit/S. > > I believe there is also 16 and 100 Mbit arcnet > hardware available ;) > Yup, Thomas Conrad had cards that came with a proprietary 100 Mbit Arcnet card and one other company that escapes my memory at the moment, Not too sure about the 16Mbit ones though. > > At least, so I was told by one happy arcnet fan. > > Rik > -- > Virtual memory is like a game you can't win; > However, without VM there's truly nothing to lose... > > http://www.surriel.com/ http://distro.conectiva.com/ > > Send all your spam to aardvark@nl.linux.org (spam digging piggy) > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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