23 Apr
2001
23 Apr
'01
12:09 p.m.
Ethan,
Would you be willing to part with the ARCnet card for the Amiga 500?
Bob Mason
classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org wrote:
--- Iggy Drougge <optimus(a)canit.se> wrote:
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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
Gateway Performance 500 Piece 'o Crap, 'ME, 128meg, 20Gig, flatbed.
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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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