Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!mcvax!enea!dkuug!iesd!fischer
From: fischer@iesd.uucp (Lars P. Fischer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: NeXT press release (very long but interesting)
Message-ID: <995@iesd.uucp>
Date: 9 Nov 88 19:43:15 GMT
References: <5423@juniper.uucp> <72886@sun.uucp> <635@ardent.UUCP> <15488@agate.BERKELEY.EDU>
Reply-To: fischer@iesd.dk (Lars P. Fischer)
Organization: Dept. of Comp. Sci., Aalborg University, Denmark
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In article <15488@agate.BERKELEY.EDU> steve@violet.berkeley.edu (Steve Goldfield) writes:
>I haven't read this anywhere. But a friend of mine told me
>yesterday that NeXT uses a thin Ethernet connection and that
>a box to convert to standard Ethernet costs a couple of hundred
>dollars.

Just about every workstation uses thin ethernet (cheapernet). This is
because cabels are cheaper and hooking up new machines are simpler and
cheaper. One typically uses thin ethernet to connect all workstations
in a department. Thick ethernet can then be used to link these
departemental nets together to form a large net, like a complete
campus net.

Hope this helps.

/Lars
-- 
Lars Fischer,  fischer@iesd.dk, {...}!mcvax!diku!iesd!fischer
We must remove the TV-induced stupor that lies like a fog
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