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Started by ucbvaxworks
Mon, 15 Mar 1982 20:49
Re: Ethernet Doomed?
Author: ucbvaxworks
Date: Mon, 15 Mar 1982 20:49
Date: Mon, 15 Mar 1982 20:49
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>From BILLW@Sri-Kl Thu Mar 11 15:47:10 1982 You are also wrong. An ethernet tranceiver is a far cry from a modem, and is a lot simpler, but it isnt quite pure digital. I believe that EtherNet does colision detect by measuring the DC level on the coax - If one person is using it, the dc level is about X. If two people are trying to transmit at once, it deviates from X. A tranceiver has to be pretty sneaky since X will vary depending on how far away from this tranceiver the station that is transmitting is. A person from MIT recently gave a talk at Stanford advocating ringnets over ethernets for this (simplified analog electronics), amoung other reasons... Bill W
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