Free stuff (UK) again

From: Paul Koning <pkoning_at_equallogic.com>
Date: Fri Jul 9 13:00:57 2004

>>>>> "Jochen" == Jochen Kunz <jkunz_at_unixag-kl.fh-kl.de> writes:

 Jochen> On Fri, 09 Jul 2004 00:48:54 +0100 Dan Williams
 Jochen> <dan_williams_at_ntlworld.com> wrote:

>> Only to speed up copying stuff between machines, but I meant
>> upgrading to 100Mbps which I know you can get for qbus but I'm not
>> sure about turbochannel. It would probably be cheaper to replace
>> the machines but I'm quite happy with them.
 Jochen> FDDI. 100 MBit/s, no collisions and there are QBus (Yes!) and
 Jochen> TC cards. I have a DEFQA in my VAX 4000-400 and a DEFTA in
 Jochen> my DEC 3000-300X. --

Sure, neat if you can find it. But FDDI is dead, dead, dead. And
Ethernet doesn't have any collisions either if you run it full
duplex.

        paul
Received on Fri Jul 09 2004 - 13:00:57 BST