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... 
28 Jun
28 Jun
1:15 a.m.
Douglas Quebbeman skrev:
> Douglas Quebbeman skrev:
>
> >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?
Once widely available as surplus...
And what's so particular about the Russian software?
> 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).
IOW it's a ring network.
> >You'll want to use a Mac to bridge
Ethernet to Localtalk, if you
> >can find the software...
>
> Or why not a Shiva box?
Ooo, you got a Shiva box? Sexy!
No, I haven't. I don't plan to reimplement Localtalk around here.
> >What else?
>
> Apollo Tokenring, FDDI...
Got the Apollo, just don't have one with two slots
so I can
bridge the two networks yet...
And how could I forget about Corvus/Omninet?
Then there's that odd "2 Mbps insertion ring" from Nine Tiles which I
described here a while ago. =)
I know that there are at least interfaces for Amigas and Amstrads.
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