Re: 100 meg TokenRing

["R. Bruce Hoffman, Jr." <rbruceh@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

HEE HEE... it's called FDDI!

Let's see, hub: $8000.
 6 ft. Fiber cable: $250
 Look on bosses face when you tell him what it costs: priceless...


<VBG>


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R. Bruce Hoffman, Jr.
 -- IBM Certified AS/400 Professional System Administrator
 -- IBM Certified AS/400 Professional Network Administrator

"The sum of all human knowledge is a fixed constant.
    It's the population that keeps growing!"

-----Original Message-----
From: Larry Bolhuis <lbolhui@ibm.net>
To: MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com <MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com>
Date: Thursday, March 02, 2000 12:31 AM
Subject: Re: 100 meg TokenRing


>IMHO 100MB Token-Ring is just about as likely to succeed as TCP/IP On
twinax.  I
>don't want to argue the merits of T/R over Ethernet (Beta was better, OS/2
still
>is).  I say spend the 100MB T/R development on REAL advertiseing for the
AS/400.
>
> - Larry
>
>bdietz@3x.com wrote:
>>
>> I've searched and searched and I know it exists, does anybody know if IBM
>> will put out a card for the 400?
>
>
>--
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