[geeks] FDDI

[Lionel Peterson]

--- Dave McGuire <mcguire at neurotica.com> wrote:
> On Tuesday, November 5, 2002, at 08:29 PM, Lionel Peterson wrote:
> >>    Metcalf was WRONG.
> >
> > Seems kinda harsh...
> 
>    I'm a harsh person. 

That's why we love you Dave...

> For about three years back in the late
> 80s/early 90s, I worked for Gerald Clancy at a tiny three-man (well
> we peaked at five I guess) startup company in Trenton NJ called
> Princeton Desktop Systems, Inc.  He was the guy who chaired IEEE
> committee 802.3.  He doesn't have anything good to say about ethernet
> either, or Bob Metcalf for that matter.

Fair enough...

I assume that he became part of Clancy Paul Computers, in Princeton...
Links point to www.justdeals.com... who have a $29.95 USB and PCMCIA
cards:

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> > In the context of being 25 year old tech, it seems OK to me... But
> then
> > again, I think you need to remember the nature of networking &
> > workstations "back in the day"...
> 
>    Yes, it was great twenty years ago.  Unfortunately, that time has 
> passed.

Fair enough

>    Ethernet is like IDE...It's popular because it's cheap and easy to
> build, not because it's good.  There are newer, better technologies
> for smart people to use...like FDDI and HIPPI.  And in the case of

Understood.

Thanks!


=====
Lionel

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