From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Jul 19 10:39: 7 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mgw1.MEIway.com (mgw1.meiway.com [212.73.210.75]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BD09137B403 for ; Thu, 19 Jul 2001 10:39:03 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from LConrad@Go2France.com) Received: from mail.Go2France.com (ms1.meiway.com [212.73.210.73]) by mgw1.MEIway.com (Postfix Relay Hub) with ESMTP id 920E616B13 for ; Thu, 19 Jul 2001 19:39:01 +0200 (CEST) Received: from IBM-HIRXKN66F0W.Go2France.com [195.115.185.184] by mail.Go2France.com with ESMTP (SMTPD32-6.06) id AD5193CA0128; Thu, 19 Jul 2001 19:48:01 +0200 Message-Id: <5.1.0.14.0.20010719193435.0275a008@mail.Go2France.com> X-Sender: LConrad@Go2France.com@mail.Go2France.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.1 Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2001 19:39:52 +0200 To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org From: Len Conrad Subject: Re: arcnet support for FreeBSD (request for review) In-Reply-To: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >That's just plain scary ;-) Although I guess Arcnet does have it's niche >applications. niche now (reliable, cheap, shielded & transformer-coupled for nasty e/m environments), but in the 80's, Novell basically built itself up to 80% market share and the LAN marketpalce on ARCnet´s back, while Ethernet was playing stupid linear bus topology games. Len < worked for Datapoint when ARCnet went commerical in 1977 > http://MenAndMice.com/DNS-training http://BIND8NT.MEIway.com : ISC BIND 8.2.4 for NT4 & W2K http://IMGate.MEIway.com : Build free, hi-perf, anti-abuse mail gateways To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message