Kip Crosby wrote:
>
> At 03:34 11/8/97 GMT, you wrote:
> >....in my experience
> >with IBM network cards, if they're a round (i.e. BNC) connector,
> >they're probably the old "baseband" stuff that uses lots of coax cable
> >and a hub/amplifier, and work only with IBM PC-LAN Program and
> >NetBEUI....the number 2Mb/sec comes
> >to mind....
>
> Are we talking about Arcnet here? When I think 2Mb/sec, BNC connector, and
> 8-bit bus, I think Arcnet, but there may have been others....
If the cards are _branded_ IBM, chances are well over ten to one that
they are
Token Ring. IBM never touched Arcnet, and was hesitant about Ethernet.
--
Ward Griffiths
"Men will never be free until the last king is strangled with the
entrails
of the last priest." [Denis Diderot, "Dithyrambe sur la fete de rois"]
Received on Sun Nov 09 1997 - 01:20:05 GMT