Re: Running out of twinax consoles...

[Pat Barber <mboceanside@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

No, I must admit , I have never had most of the problems you
describe.

Twinax was/is been around for well over 30 years
and if reliability was an issue, I believe IBM would have made
some some pretty major changes quite a while back.

I have seen ethernet wiring that beyond anybody's ability to
fix. I have also seen token ring that did some rather odd things
on a daily basis. Wiring is wiring and if done badly, will fail, no
matter what the connect method.

My point is, twinax is no worse or no better than most of
the current methods. Ethernet was invented by a pair of
guys trying to get copiers talk to each other in a lab. Is it
a better solution ? No...just cheaper and more widely used
by the pc crowd.

Running down a technology that was quite reliable for many
years makes no sense.


rob@xxxxxxxxx wrote:

> You obviously didn't go through the plethora of broken switches on 3196's 
> that I did.
>
> Rob Berendt
>