20 Jan
2012
20 Jan
'12
1:37 p.m.
Keith Monahan wrote:
I'm not sure if I ever even heard a passing
comment about 3mbps --- Must
have been fairly unpopular(by then) for me not to run into it at least
once. This was 15+ years ago.....
15 years ago is *modern* times as the history of Ethernet goes. 3Mbps
well on its way out 10 years before that.
Note that 3Mbps Ethernet was only a defacto standard. The first industry
standard was for 10Mbps, adopted in 1980, and the IEEE standard wasn't
published until 1985.