27 Jun
2001
27 Jun
'01
10:40 p.m.
Douglas Quebbeman skrev:
Once widely available as surplus...
To round out that heterogeny, you need a set of
Thomas-Conrad ARCNet
cards (unless you can find 20Mbps-Datapoint cards), a passive hub,
and a serial-port-based Token-ring network that uses software written
in Russia. The Russian software lets you host drives that are actually
shares from other machines!
Why Thomas-Conrad in particular? Is there some kind of 20Mb Arcnet version?
Datapoint had a spec for 20MBs ARCnet; I don't know if anyone
every implemented it. Too bad, at that speed it would have been
superior to Ethernet until the 100Mbs era began (ARCnet uses
CSMA/CA to avoid collisions, instead of CSMA/CD to detect them).
You'll want
to use a Mac to bridge Ethernet to Localtalk, if you
can find the software...
Or why not a Shiva box? What else?
Apollo Tokenring, FDDI...