[124821] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: what about 48 bits?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu)
Mon Apr 5 13:45:00 2010
To: Jay Nakamura <zeusdadog@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 05 Apr 2010 13:29:20 EDT."
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From: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
Date: Mon, 05 Apr 2010 13:43:52 -0400
Cc: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
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On Mon, 05 Apr 2010 13:29:20 EDT, Jay Nakamura said:
> >> 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.
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.
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