: Wayne S
Subject: Re: Retro networking / WAN communities
There is some mention of Token Ring vs Ethernet here. IIRC, One issue that was
pointed out was that IBM was the only single source for TR chips so the price
of token ring could be kept artificially high. Was there ever a second or third
source
Totally forgot about ARPANET.
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> On Apr 12, 2022, at 11:47, Will Cooke via cctech
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>> On 04/12/2022 12:42 PM Wayne S via cctech wrote:
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>> Thanks for the info about IMP.
>> But now i’d have to question IMP routers being around in 1970 since the
> On 04/12/2022 12:42 PM Wayne S via cctech wrote:
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> Thanks for the info about IMP.
> But now i’d have to question IMP routers being around in 1970 since the
> internet wasn’t around yet.
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The first response of "Interface" Message Processor is more correct. There was
a LOT of
> I'm running into issues with switches not supporting 10 / 100 Mbps management
> interfaces for other equipment.
Half duplex was apparently deprecated a few years back, and recent switches
from Cisco (and probably other vendors) no longer support half duplex. We ran
into this at work for long
On 11/04/2022 18:02, Grant Taylor via cctech wrote:
> Does anyone know of any communities / mailing lists / newsgroups / et
> al. for retro networking / WAN technologies?
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> I find myself interested in (at least) the following and would like to
> find others with similar (dis)interests to chat
