31 Aug
2018
31 Aug
'18
12:32 p.m.
On Aug 31, 2018, at 3:25 PM, Grant Taylor via cctalk
<cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote:
On 08/31/2018 01:07 PM, systems_glitch via cctalk wrote:
You may be thinking of the DELNI, a multi AUI hub. Not a repeater, apparently. DEC also
made a repeater in that era, the DEREP -- just two ports. That may be why the DELNI was
built, as a way to get more fanout without the complexity of a multiport repeater built
out of discrete electronics.
Yeah, I forget what the original allowed length
was for drop cables, but I seem to remember it striking me as quite long! A few feet of
CAT5 (or even better, STP) has a lot of wiggle room :P
I think I've seen reports of multi AUI port taps. Correct? Could you have one multi-port tap in a computer lab
(of 5 ~ 20 machines) and connect them all to the single tap? Sort of like what is done
with 10BaseT cables to a hub in the room?
Yes, the DELNI allowed for that, you'd plug in up to 8 NICs and then connect the
uplink port to a transceiver.
paul