Re: READ THIS if you know about ETHERNET

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From: Adam Williamson
Date: Thu, 11 Apr 1996 00:00

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For some weird reason, "Matthew A. Schnoor" <sch...@cs.pdx.edu> was
possessed to write
>
>On 6 Apr 1996, Macky Stingray wrote:
>
>>   Ethernet can be kind of considered a rich man's toy, I guess, but
>> damn, it's nice...
>
>Rich?  Hardly.  Cheap BNC cards run for $50 or less in all the catalogs I 
>get.  Nothing for great performance (they ain't no Intel cards) but 
>they're a full 10Mbps.  BNC cabling is pretty cheap too.
>
Yep, and, you then need two of them, and another computer to put the
other in. You can't _really_ play much of a network game with one
computer.
--
Adam Williamson, D1M - ad...@scss.demon.co.uk
http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/The_Williamsons/
P120/16megEDO/2megDRAMGFX/15inch/4xCD/1.2gigHD/NE2000compat/NT 3.51
/NT 4.0 beta/Win95/Win3.11/DOS 6.22/Doom2 1.9/DCK 3.3

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From: Adam Williamson <Ad...@scss.demon.co.uk>
Subject: Re: READ THIS if you know about ETHERNET
Date: 1996/04/11
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