Newsgroups: comp.dcom.lans
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: Starlan/Ethernet compatibility
Message-ID: <1989Jun21.155639.21593@utzoo.uucp>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <2009@wasatch.utah.edu> <2230006@hprnd.HP.COM>
Date: Wed, 21 Jun 89 15:56:39 GMT

In article <2230006@hprnd.HP.COM> pat@hprnd.HP.COM (Pat Thaler) writes:
>...In buying product now, the important question to ask
>the vendor is "How will you support migration to 10BASE-T when the
>standard is completed?"

You know, I'd really like to see at least one vendor reply to that question
with "we won't, since we think twisted-pair Ethernet is a dumb idea and
totally unnecessary".  I don't expect that anyone's marketing department
will let them get away with that, though...

IEEE is showing a depressing pattern of being unable to say no to any
proposal for a new standard.  I realize the politics involved make this
hard to fix, but it could use fixing.
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