8 Jan
2008
8 Jan
'08
8:48 p.m.
On Jan 8, 2008 8:11 PM, Brent Hilpert <hilpert at cs.ubc.ca> wrote:
I well remember linking VAXes together and fighting
with 2-metre loops of
thick-wire ethernet while banging those damned metal brick transceivers around,
until DEC saved us all with that first 8-port ethernet 'hub' (although the
transceiver cables were still a pain). (Am I correct in recalling it was called
the DEQNA?).
DEQNA = Q-bus Ethernet (M7504), replaced by DELQA (M7516) and DESQA (M3127)
Maybe you meant DELNI = Digital Ethernet Local Network Interconnect,
which had 8 local AUI ports.