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From: Will@cup.portal.com (Will E Estes)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Cost of Ethernet
Message-ID: <26725@cup.portal.com>
Date: 8 Feb 90 21:39:19 GMT
Organization: The Portal System (TM)
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Can someone give me a cost breakdown of what it takes to get into Ethernet?

I have four DOS and OS/2 workstations that I need to put on Ethernet. 
I figure about $500 per station for the hardware.  What else, at minimum,
do I need to get this all to work to the point where we can do file transfers,
use a server, and use network applications that make use of named pipes and
other application to application level protocols?  And how much do each of
the additional components cost?  Cost is a real issue here, so I'm a little
scared about any approach that would require me to buy a particular vendor's
server at some outrageous markup.

Thanks,
Will              (sun!portal!cup.portal.com!Will)