[124820] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: what about 48 bits?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jay Nakamura)
Mon Apr 5 13:30:06 2010
In-Reply-To: <2B39543C-7EF5-48AE-9E54-3E8A0C714204@cs.columbia.edu>
Date: Mon, 5 Apr 2010 13:29:20 -0400
From: Jay Nakamura <zeusdadog@gmail.com>
To: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
>> I would have attributed the success of Ethernet to price!
>>
>>
> You've got the causality wrong -- it wasn't cheap, way back when.
I remember back in '93~94ish (I think) you could get a off brand 10BT
card for less than $100, as oppose to Token Ring which was $300~400.
I can't remember anything else that was cheaper back then. If you go
back before that, I don't know.
-Jay
