[rescue] octane question

[Dave McGuire]

On January 17, Joshua D Boyd wrote:
> >   Of course, I'm SURE we're all using FDDI here...I'm sure there's
> > nobody on this list that would choose the "vastly techinically
> > inferior but more strongly marketed" technology over the "newer,
> > faster, better, but less understood and less heavily marketed"
> > technology....the logical extension of which being Microsoft
> > products. ;)
> 
> Yeah, but if someone is protesting ethernet, what are they supposed to do 
> when they want faster than 100Mbps between a combination of Mac OS X boxes,
> SGIs, and NetBSD running monstrous NFS servers, and Solaris running database
> servers?

  Faster than 100Mbps?  HIPPI or FC-AL.  At least there's some
intelligence to the design!

> Also, much as FDDI might be nice, when I get an O2 it is going to be ethernet
> forever.  It will either have a firewire card in it's single PCI slot, or it
> will have a controller for a fast harddisk array.

  It all depends on your priorities, I guess.  I do a lot of
networking, so I like good network performance.

     -Dave

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Dave McGuire
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