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Re: quietly....
From: Lamar Owen <lowen () pari edu>
Date: Wed, 2 Feb 2011 18:03:06 -0500
On Wednesday, February 02, 2011 05:04:33 pm Mark Andrews wrote:
They didn't fail. They were designed to complement each other. It just that somewhere along the way people forgot that.
My engineer brain looks at it this way: "The better is the enemy of the good." (Voltaire: "Le mieux est l'ennemi du bien."). I remember thinking back in my NetWare 2.x days that this thing called IP just needed the simplicity of IPX, with its native Layer 3 use of the MAC address..... boy, was I naive back then. Bridged ethernet across 56K leased lines with NetWare servers at the other end.... 3Com NetBuilders, and Vitalink's TransLAN III Bridges, I think. Been a long time. The TransLAN III device did the AUI interface to the 10Base5 LAN segments, IIRC.
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- Re: quietly...., (continued)
- Re: quietly.... Iljitsch van Beijnum (Feb 15)
- Re: quietly.... David Israel (Feb 15)
- Re: quietly.... Jack Bates (Feb 15)
- Re: quietly.... Michael Dillon (Feb 15)
- Re: quietly.... Jay Ashworth (Feb 15)
- Re: quietly.... Lamar Owen (Feb 18)
- Re: quietly.... Valdis . Kletnieks (Feb 15)
- Re: quietly.... Jack Bates (Feb 15)
- Re: quietly.... Mark Andrews (Feb 02)
- Re: quietly.... Ricky Beam (Feb 02)
- Re: quietly.... Lamar Owen (Feb 02)
- Re: quietly.... Tony Finch (Feb 02)
- Re: quietly.... Mark Andrews (Feb 02)
- Re: quietly.... Nick Hilliard (Feb 02)
- Re: quietly.... Randy Bush (Feb 02)
- Re: quietly.... Tony Finch (Feb 02)
- Re: quietly.... Jack Bates (Feb 02)
- Re: quietly.... Owen DeLong (Feb 02)
- Re: quietly.... Mark Smith (Feb 02)
- Re: quietly.... Mohacsi Janos (Feb 03)
- Re: quietly.... Jack Bates (Feb 02)