Subj : Re: Networking my Vintage Homelab
To   : Spectre
From : poindexter FORTRAN
Date : Fri Dec 01 2023 08:05:00

-=> Spectre wrote to poindexter FORTRAN <=-

 Sp> Out of interest, what kind of card only did 5mbps? Never saw anything
 Sp> like that.

They were proprietary, not Ethernet. I'm pretty sure ARCnet was 5 mbps,
which ended up performing as well if not better than Ethernet since it
didn't have issues with collisions. ARCnet was a token-passing algorithm
like Token Ring.



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