12 Mar
2001
12 Mar
'01
6:46 p.m.
On Mon, 12 Mar 2001 healyzh(a)aracnet.com wrote:
the connector I'm thinking of is physically the same as the AAUI connector
and not at all like the 'AUI' connector on, say, an SS20, which is
something like a 26-pin version of the compact 50-pin interface used for
the SCSI interface on the same machine.
Dunno if we're talking about the same thing or not. I've never seen the
back of a SPARCbook, but I know this same 26-pin thing is used on the
SPARCserver 1000, the SPARCclassic, and the SPARCstations 5, 20, and
LX (though not always for ethernet). I've only seen the AAUI-looking job
on SBUS ethernet cards.
ok
r.
AAUI is a kind
of compact version of AUI which Apple popularized, if not
invented. A few older Sun SBUS cards use a similar if not identical
interface (the FSBE card, for example). I've never owned an FSBE to try it
out.
I've got both, and IIRC, they're definitly different. The Sun cables if you
find one are definitly worth picking up, BTW. I had a *hard* time finding
one for my SparcBook.