23 Apr
2001
23 Apr
'01
3:40 p.m.
I have a PureData Arcnet hub that I picked up in a thrift. It has 8BNC
connectors and 2 RJ11's labelled Arclink. It's dated Aug/90.
It came with a fuse missing and I've never had the occasion or motivation to
check it out, nor the Arcnet NICs for that matter.
larry
--- Iggy Drougge <optimus(a)canit.se> wrote:
Reply to:
lgwalker(a)look.ca
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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