24 Apr
2001
24 Apr
'01
8:04 a.m.
Ethan Dicks skrev:
--- Iggy Drougge <optimus(a)canit.se> wrote:
> 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.
AFAIK, it's possible to use it an bus sense as well, but that depends on the
chipset used, since they are specced for different resistance or something
like that.
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.
Silly old Commodore also decided that it were to be the official Amiga network
standard. Mind you, it was cheaper, but quite useless in an Ethernet world.
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