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From: henry@utzoo.UUCP (Henry Spencer)
Newsgroups: net.dcom
Subject: Re: Thin Ethernet really works...
Message-ID: <6631@utzoo.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 28-Apr-86 12:06:18 EDT
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Posted: Mon Apr 28 12:06:18 1986
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Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
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> > Why did xeroX go with expensive custom cabling originally?  They figured
> > that standard TV style thin cables wouldn't permit a big enough network?
> 
> ...The thick Ethernet cable was developed especially
> for its characteristics like loss and propagation delay...

Thick Ethernet cable also has enough shielding to work well in truly blood-
curdling RFI environments, e.g. radio broadcast transmitters at unfortunate
frequencies.  Or so I have been told.  Whether all this shielding is really
justified for the usual case is another matter...
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