@Al Kossow: The IBM document GG22-9422-0 is already on Bitsavers, so it's only fair that DEC's response can also be found there, right?
So please could you preserve this piece of DEC, 3Com and Ethernet and present it on bisavers? Thanks, Ulli Am Do., 16. Okt. 2025 um 21:29 Uhr schrieb Paul Koning < [email protected]>: > > > > On Oct 16, 2025, at 12:13 PM, Hans-Ulrich Hölscher via cctalk < > [email protected]> wrote: > > > > Could you please publish the: > > EE-EA345-42-001 The Digital/3Com Guide to IBM document # GG22-9422-0" > > DEC document ? > > > > Thanks > > Ulli > > > > Paul Koning via cctalk <[email protected]> schrieb am Do., 16. Okt. > > 2025, 16:12: > > > >> ... > >> > >> Around that time, IBM put out a marketing document that pretended to > show > >> why token ring was better than Ethernet. The DECnet architecture group > >> (where I worked at the time) created a paragraph by paragraph rebuttal > to > >> that and published it as a joint DEC/3Com document. I still have it: > "The > >> Digital/3Com Guide to IBM document # GG22-9422-0" (DEC document > >> EE-EA345-42-001). It doesn't seem to be online, Google has never heard > of > >> it, nor the IBM document it rebuts. As I recall, Bill Hawe was the lead > >> author of that work; I wrote some bits and pieces for it but I don't > >> remember the details. > > I only have a paper copy (paperback style binding, I guess that's called > "perfect bound" in the industry). > > Al Kossow, would you like it to scan? I can send it your way. > > paul > >
