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From: poffen@sj.ate.slb.com (Russ Poffenberger)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: Ethernet Cards and long lines
Message-ID: <1990Nov27.234433.25050@sj.ate.slb.com>
Date: 27 Nov 90 23:44:33 GMT
References: <17358@netcom.UUCP> <1990Nov26.180842.9530@amd.com> <17572@hydra.gatech.EDU> <1990Nov27.072930.1813@amd.com>
Reply-To: poffen@sj.ate.slb.com (Russ Poffenberger)
Organization: Schlumberger Technologies, San Jose, CA.
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In article <1990Nov27.072930.1813@amd.com> phil@brahms.amd.com (Phil Ngai) writes:
>In article <17572@hydra.gatech.EDU> bb16@prism.gatech.EDU (Scott Bostater) writes:
>||>The AUI spec is 50 meters so 125 feet should be legal if
>||>he is talking about AUI cables.
>|
>|WD claimed 300 meters, maybe they should read the spec :-) In all fairness I
>|should read it as well.
>
>Now I'm confused. I don't understand what this 300 meters would be.
>10BASE5 allows a 500 meter segment. (the thick yellow stuff)
>

He may be referring to the maximum length of a thin wire segment.

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