Subj : Re: Networking my Vintage Homelab
To   : poindexter FORTRAN
From : tenser
Date : Tue Dec 05 2023 13:08:24

On 01 Dec 2023 at 08:05a, poindexter FORTRAN pondered and said...
 
 pF> They were proprietary, not Ethernet. I'm pretty sure ARCnet was 5 mbps,
 pF> which ended up performing as well if not better than Ethernet since it
 pF> didn't have issues with collisions. ARCnet was a token-passing algorithm
 pF> like Token Ring.

I believe ARCnet was 2.5 Mbps, but it was token-based and I will
absolutely buy that it beat early Ethernet.

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