[124822] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: what about 48 bits?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steven Bellovin)
Mon Apr 5 13:51:48 2010
From: Steven Bellovin <smb@cs.columbia.edu>
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Date: Mon, 5 Apr 2010 13:51:23 -0400
To: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
Cc: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
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On Apr 5, 2010, at 1:43 52PM, Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu wrote:
> On Mon, 05 Apr 2010 13:29:20 EDT, Jay Nakamura said:
>>>> I would have attributed the success of Ethernet to price!
>>>>=20
>>>>=20
>>> You've got the causality wrong -- it wasn't cheap, way back when.
>>=20
>> 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.
>=20
> 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.
Yup. 10 years earlier, a 3Com Ethernet card for a Vax cost about $1500, =
if memory serves.
--Steve Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb
