Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!crdgw1!crdos1!davidsen
From: davidsen@crdos1.crd.ge.COM (Wm E Davidsen Jr)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: Ethernet Factoid
Message-ID: <2221@crdos1.crd.ge.COM>
Date: 11 Apr 90 14:26:22 GMT
References: <76700190@p.cs.uiuc.edu> <1990Apr10.195000.7522@utzoo.uucp>
Reply-To: davidsen@crdos1.crd.ge.com (bill davidsen)
Organization: GE Corp R&D Center, Schenectady NY
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In article <1990Apr10.195000.7522@utzoo.uucp> henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer) writes:

| >What is the remaining lifetime of 10Mb/s ethernet?
| 
| That's like asking what's the remaining lifetime of RS232.  Ethernet
| may not be the front-line networking for the high-priced hardware for
| too much longer, but it will be the standard for non-performance-critical
| local networking for a long, long time.  It's too universal to die any
| time soon.

  And existing enet installations can get better performance by use of a
faster (usually optical) backbone. This enables any two stations to get
about the same performance they would if connected by an unloaded enet.
There are some application which really need to connect two machines
faster than enet can run unloaded, but for many installations the
problem is total load, and that can be handled.
-- 
bill davidsen	(davidsen@crdos1.crd.GE.COM -or- uunet!crdgw1!crdos1!davidsen)
            "Stupidity, like virtue, is its own reward" -me