Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!watmath!iuvax!rutgers!cmcl2!phri!roy
From: roy@phri.UUCP (Roy Smith)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip
Subject: Re: Reliability of TCP/IP
Message-ID: <3959@phri.UUCP>
Date: 28 Aug 89 15:49:46 GMT
References: <294@can503.UUCP> <3582@asylum.SF.CA.US>
Reply-To: roy@phri.UUCP (Roy Smith)
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Organization: Public Health Research Inst. (NY, NY)
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In article <3582@asylum.SF.CA.US> karl@asylum.UUCP (Karl Auerbach) writes:
> Seems that down in Los Angeles some IBM-oriented MIS group was saying,
> in a knowing authoritative voice, that Ethernet should not be used to carry
> financial information because it has collisions and drops digits.

	I remember reading (handwave: about 2 years ago, in RISKS-DIGEST)
about a hospital which was putting in a network.  They had pretty much
decided on ethernet, when some suit found out about collisions: "You mean
sometimes data is transmitted and network errors cause it to be lost!?  We
can't have any data get lost in a hospital!"  And so they decided that they
couldn't use ethernet.
-- 
Roy Smith, Public Health Research Institute
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