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From: davidsen@sixhub.UUCP (Wm E. Davidsen Jr)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: Ethernet Cards and long lines
Message-ID: <2428@sixhub.UUCP>
Date: 28 Nov 90 02:02:23 GMT
References: <17132@hydra.gatech.EDU> <17358@netcom.UUCP> <1990Nov26.180842.9530@amd.com>
Reply-To: davidsen@sixhub.UUCP (bill davidsen)
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In article <1990Nov26.180842.9530@amd.com> phil@brahms.amd.com (Phil Ngai) writes:

| The AUI spec is 50 meters so 125 feet should be legal if
| he is talking about AUI cables.

  And in answer to another question earlier this week, my net guru told
me that ethernet and 802.3 are not only diferent at the packey level,
but also in some of the physical specs.
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