Ethan,
Would you be willing to part with the ARCnet card for the Amiga 500?
Bob Mason
classiccmp_at_classiccmp.org wrote:
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> --- Iggy Drougge <optimus_at_canit.se> wrote:
> > Arcnet is AFAIK 2 Mb and another protocol without relation to Ethernet.
> > Ain't that so?
>
> Yes. ARCnet is another protocol, entirely. ?It is a token-passing protocol,
> with either a star topology (a simple "hub" is four BNC connectors connected
> together with maybe a resistor per connector thrown in. ?More machines than
> that and you have to use an active hub), or, later, an RS-485-based twisted
> pair interconnection scheme.
>
> I don't recall the bitrate, but it's much less than 10Mb.
>
> I have some ARCnet cards for PC and one for the Amiga 500. ?It was popular
> for a while for early LAN parties because when DOOM came out, there was IPX
> support and ARCnet cards were cheap and easy to set up.
>
> -ethan
>
>
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Bob Mason
2x Amiga 500's, GVP A530 (40mhz 68030/68882, 8meg Fast, SCSI), 1.3/3.1, 2meg Chip, full ECS chipset, EZ135, 1084S, big harddrives, 2.2xCD
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Received on Mon Apr 23 2001 - 11:09:38 BST