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From: nelson@sun.soe.clarkson.edu (Russ Nelson)
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Subject: Re: Little Big Lan ($75 network)
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Date: 13 Dec 90 14:51:42 GMT
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In-Reply-To: nelson@sun.soe.clarkson.edu's message of 6 Dec 90 10:34:47

In article <NELSON.90Dec6103447@image.clarkson.edu> nelson@sun.soe.clarkson.edu (Russ Nelson) writes:

   So I asked him if he asked Datapoint for an ARCNET type code, or the
   IEEE for an Ethernet type code, and he says "Nawwww, I don't bother
   much with those standards. ...

Well, I talked to Datapoint, and they said that it was perfectly acceptable to
NOT use an ARCNET type code if you don't want to be interoperable.

For my purposes, I want our office to be able to share our laser printer, so
I need interoperability on a wire with TCP/IP, Chaos, and Novell.

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