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Article #12788Re: Why are new Suns thick Ethernet only
From: Steve Grandi
Date: Thu, 11 May 1989 10:45
Date: Thu, 11 May 1989 10:45
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The Sun folks at the San Francisco product introduction said the decision
to use only a thick Ethernet connector was driven by FCC ``interference''
requirements. The Sun folks claimed that a Class B (suitable for home
use) classification was impossible with a thin-net connector.
Steve Grandi, National Optical Astronomy Observatories, Tucson AZ, 602-325-9228
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cornell!uw-beaver!rice!sun-spots-request From: grandi@noao.edu (Steve Grandi) Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun Subject: Re: Why are new Suns thick Ethernet only Keywords: Hardware Message-ID: <8905081415.AA02044@aquila.noao> Date: 11 May 89 10:45:20 GMT Sender: usenet@rice.edu Organization: Sun-Spots Lines: 8 Approved: Sun-Spots@rice.edu Original-Date: Mon, 8 May 89 07:15:57 MST X-Sun-Spots-Digest: Volume 7, Issue 283, message 4 of 13