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From: mrm@sceard.UUCP (M.R.Murphy)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.lans
Subject: Re: 802.3 a panacea ?
Keywords: mostly
Message-ID: <826@sceard.UUCP>
Date: 22 Aug 88 16:01:46 GMT
References: <10400002@osiris.cso.uiuc.edu> <4942@cos.com> <1988Aug15.170727.24258@utzoo.uucp> <1677@spdcc.COM>
Reply-To: mrm@sceard.UUCP (0040-M.R.Murphy)
Organization: Sceard Systems, Inc., San Marcos, CA  92069
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In article <1677@spdcc.COM> eli@spdcc.COM (Steve Elias) writes:
>In <1988Aug15.170727.24258@utzoo.uucp> henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer) writes:
[Some comments deleted...]
>
>	how do you propose to network large groups of buildings
>	or factories???  not with 802.3 -- the maximum cable length
>	limitation can't be ignored.
>
Repeaters, bridges, routers, and gateways can reasonably be used.
>	do you contend that the 802 standards were made by marketeers ?
Widespread use of r,b,r and g should certainly increase revenue of some
companies enough to please their marketeers:-)
-- 
Mike Murphy  Sceard Systems, Inc.  544 South Pacific St. San Marcos, CA  92069
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