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From: morgan@Jessica.stanford.edu (RL "Bob" Morgan)
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Subject: Re: high speed networking between buildings
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Date: 22 Sep 89 16:42:39 GMT
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> A cautious man would probably predict that FDDI prices will fall very
> gradually, not suddenly and massively.  For the immediate future, it's
> likely to remain a "premium" networking technology, used only where
> Ethernet is not good enough.

Moreover, I'll bet that the most common application on these fancy
FDDI-attached workstations will still be Telnet . . .  *8^)*

 - RL "Bob"