From: Eric L. Strobel (fyzycyst_at_comcast.net)
Date: Sun Sep 22 2002 - 14:06:34 PDT
somewhere near the temporal coordinates of 9/22/02 1:16 AM, the entity known
as Laurent Daudelin transmitted the following from
laurent.daudelin_at_verizon.net:
>
> on 22/09/02 00:32, Ed Kummel at tech_ed_at_yahoo.com wrote:
>
>> They were Apple's claim to Networking
>> (Apple claimed that every Mac owner who had a printer
>> had a home network running in their house) This
>> allowed older macs to talk along telephone wire
>> (imagine a home network in a 5 level townhouse with
>> phone cabling running up and down the stairs) File
>> transfers occured as a whopping 230KBPS (about 10
>> times slower than 10BaseT ethernet)
Except that ethernet does a really bad job of coming anywhere close to it's
potential speed, while I used to routinely get transfers on PhoneNet
connections that were 50-80% max. I've never seen an ethernet that gave
much more than 15-20% of the maximum.
>> They aint much good without the termination resistors
>> anyway!
Not quite true. There's been many times I've run PhoneNet without one or
both termination resistors, without so much as a hiccup.
>
> Well, they were still considered a network, since you could use them to do
> file and printer sharing. Back then, AppleTalk was the largest network in
> use. Sure, there was Ethernet back then, but how many people back in the 80s
> were running their own Ethernet network at home?
>
Or for that matter, how many people even knew what ethernet was? Certainly
almost nobody could AFFORD to use ethernet back then.
- Eric.
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