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From: Andy.Linton@comp.vuw.ac.nz (Andy Linton)
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Date: 31 Jul 90 22:22:14 GMT
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Organization: Computer Science Dept, Victoria University, Wellington, NEW ZEALAND
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It seems likely that our new Computer Science building will be cabled using
AT&T SYSTIMAX Premises Distribution System (PDS). I'd be interested in
any general comments people may have about the system.

Eventually we'd like to use it to provide 10BaseT support into offices
but we have still a number of Unix workstations which uses 10Base2 and
10Base5 e.g. HP300, HP800, Sun, NCD X-terminal plus PC's and Mac's.

This raises two points:

1) Suggestions of good and bad converter devices from 10Base[25] to
10BaseT would be welcome. Approximate prices would be useful.

2) And for the future, who is going to support 10BaseT on Unix
workstations etc?

Thanks
andy