Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!sdd.hp.com!think.com!paperboy!yee From: yee@osf.org (Michael K. Yee) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc Subject: Re: APPLE & FCC PETITION (PRESS RELEASE) Message-ID: Date: 29 Jan 91 16:06:41 GMT References: Sender: news@OSF.ORG Organization: Open Software Foundation Lines: 25 In-reply-to: bannon@andromeda.rutgers.edu's message of 29 Jan 91 03:54:23 GMT In article bannon@andromeda.rutgers.edu (Ron Bannon) writes: ... |> Apple Petitions FCC for Use of Radio Waves |> For Data Transmission by All Computer Makers |> |>Specifically, Apple petitioned the FCC to allow computer communications exclusively on 40 MHz of the radio frequency bandwidth between 1850-1990 MHz to transmit data at high speeds (for example, 10 megabits per second) over short distances (up to about 150 feet). |> Isn't there already a frequency range allocated for wireless ethernet? I think it's a bit slower than what Apple is proposing, but there already something in place right? I think Apple has the right idea in that anything slower than standard coxial ethernet speeds will have limited usefulness (i.e. too slow for networked graphics support ala X Windows :-)). Imagine a portable mac-like computer with distributed network graphics capability... Sounds like a good commercial. =Mike -- = Michael K. Yee -- yee@osf.org or uunet!osf.org!yee -- = OSF/Motif Development = "I can't give you brains, but I can give you a diploma." -- The Wizard of OZ