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Article #309Ethernet drops digits: Was: Re: Bi-quinary and round holes
From: ka... Karl Auerbach
Date: Tue, 19 Dec 1989 23:30
Date: Tue, 19 Dec 1989 23:30
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This has sure gone along way since my original note about the Univac SS-90 and its round holes, biquniary numbers, etc. So just to keep the non-sequiter going, I thought I bring up the recent attempt of a salesman (probably from one of those companies that support token rings) who said that a large city department in LA ought not to use Ethernets for financial data. The reason, he said, is that Ethernets have collisions and that this causes digits to be lost. And we sure don't want to loose digits for financial data. (Is it OK to lose digits for engineering data?) Such is life in the big city. --karl--
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Path: mbox-mo1.pugleaf.net!gmdzi!unido!mcsun!uunet!hoptoad!asylum!karl From: ka...@asylum.SF.CA.US (Karl Auerbach) Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Subject: Ethernet drops digits: Was: Re: Bi-quinary and round holes Message-ID: <9147@asylum.SF.CA.US> Date: 19 Dec 89 23:30:03 GMT References: <8960@asylum.SF.CA.US> <6850@shlump.nac.dec.com> <217@sixhub.UUCP> Reply-To: karl@asylum.UUCP (Karl Auerbach) Organization: The Asylum; Belmont, CA Lines: 12 Posted: Wed Dec 20 00:30:03 1989 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit