Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!att!westmark!dave
From: dave@westmark.UUCP (Dave Levenson)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.lans
Subject: Re: Starlan/Ethernet compatibility
Message-ID: <1509@westmark.UUCP>
Date: 22 Jun 89 02:51:27 GMT
References: <2009@wasatch.utah.edu> <2230006@hprnd.HP.COM> <1989Jun21.155639.21593@utzoo.uucp>
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In article <1989Jun21.155639.21593@utzoo.uucp>, henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer) writes:
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> 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...


While I wouldn't especially mind one vendor's taking that stand, I
would certainly steel clear of any who did!  Fortunately, if one
vendor decided not to support twisted-pair ethernet, others would
continue to support it.

We sell, install, and service networked personal computers.  We
usually install them in existing older buildings.  Today, most of
these buildings are full of disused telephone wiring, left over when
the 1A2 key telephone system was replaced by a modern system.  The
major cost of installing a system is neither the wire nor the
network components, it's the labor involved in running the wire.  If
there is existing twisted-pair in the ceilings, walls, and equipment
closets, it reduces the overall  cost of installing a network by a
factor of more than 50%!  And it works!  It may not be technically
elegant, but it under-sells coax every time.

That is not a dumb idea.

That is not totally unnecessary.

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