Subj : Re: Networking my Vintage Homelab
To   : tenser
From : Bf2K+
Date : Tue Dec 05 2023 13:04:18

On 05 Dec 23  13:08:24 tenser wrote...

TT> On 01 Dec 2023 at 08:05a, poindexter FORTRAN pondered and said...   
TT>  pF> They were proprietary, not Ethernet. I'm pretty sure ARCnet was
TT>  pF> 5 mbps, which ended up performing as well if not better than
TT>  pF> Ethernet since it didn't have issues with collisions. ARCnet was
TT>  pF> a token-passing algorithm like Token Ring. 
TT> 
TT> I believe ARCnet was 2.5 Mbps, but it was token-based and I will
TT> absolutely buy that it beat early Ethernet.
TT> 
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To which Bf2K+ replies...

The first two Netware networks that I ever set up wer on ARCnet systems.
They worked very well but I don't remember ethernet being available at
that time... of course these days I don't remember much of anything :)


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