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Re: what about 48 bits?
From: Bill Stewart <nonobvious () gmail com>
Date: Mon, 5 Apr 2010 14:10:07 -0700
On Mon, Apr 5, 2010 at 10:51 AM, Steven Bellovin <smb () cs columbia edu> wrote:
On Apr 5, 2010, at 1:43 52PM, Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu wrote:Steve is talking mid-80s pricing, not mid-90s. By '93 or so, the fact that Ethernet was becoming ubiquitous had already forced the price down.Yup. 10 years earlier, a 3Com Ethernet card for a Vax cost about $1500, if memory serves.
$1500 is what I remember also (forget if that was the Interlan NI1010 or the DEUNA / DELUA), plus of course the cost of whatever Unibus you're burning the bandwidth on. Serial was cheaper, but most of the competition wasn't. I assume Datakit boards had a regular list price for customers other than intra-Bell? -- ---- Thanks; Bill Note that this isn't my regular email account - It's still experimental so far. And Google probably logs and indexes everything you send it.
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- Re: what about 48 bits?, (continued)
- Re: what about 48 bits? Jay Nakamura (Apr 05)
- Re: what about 48 bits? Steven Bellovin (Apr 05)
- Re: what about 48 bits? Jay Nakamura (Apr 05)
- Re: what about 48 bits? Valdis . Kletnieks (Apr 05)
- Re: what about 48 bits? Steven Bellovin (Apr 05)
- Re: what about 48 bits? Nick Hilliard (Apr 05)
- Re: what about 48 bits? Jeroen van Aart (Apr 07)
- Re: what about 48 bits? Vince Fuller (Apr 08)
- Re: what about 48 bits? Barry Shein (Apr 05)
- Re: what about 48 bits? Steven Bellovin (Apr 05)
- Re: what about 48 bits? Bill Stewart (Apr 05)
- Re: what about 48 bits? Stephen Sprunk (Apr 06)
- Re: what about 48 bits? joel jaeggli (Apr 06)
- Re: what about 48 bits? John Kristoff (Apr 07)
- Re: what about 48 bits? Roland Perry (Apr 07)
- Re: what about 48 bits? Joe Greco (Apr 07)
- Re: what about 48 bits? Roland Perry (Apr 07)
- Re: what about 48 bits? Joe Greco (Apr 07)
- Hubs on a NIC (was:Re: what about 48 bits?) Lamar Owen (Apr 07)
- Re: Hubs on a NIC (was:Re: what about 48 bits?) Joe Greco (Apr 07)
- Re: Hubs on a NIC (was:Re: what about 48 bits?) Steven Bellovin (Apr 07)