Since we are on the subject of ancient history, anyone remember ARCnet? I used to run an ARCnet network for automated test equipment. Our older Z80 based testers ran a dedicated protocol for communicating to a central data collection server, and the newer MSDOS based testers ran Novell's LanWorkplace TCP/IP stack to do IP over ARCnet.
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