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Re: what about 48 bits?
From: Steven Bellovin <smb () cs columbia edu>
Date: Mon, 5 Apr 2010 13:51:23 -0400
On Apr 5, 2010, at 1:43 52PM, Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu wrote:
On Mon, 05 Apr 2010 13:29:20 EDT, Jay Nakamura said:I would have attributed the success of Ethernet to price!You've got the causality wrong -- it wasn't cheap, way back when.I remember back in '93~94ish (I think) you could get a off brand 10BT card for less than $100, as oppose to Token Ring which was $300~400. I can't remember anything else that was cheaper back then. If you go back before that, I don't know.Steve is talking mid-80s pricing, not mid-90s. By '93 or so, the fact that Ethernet was becoming ubiquitous had already forced the price down.
Yup. 10 years earlier, a 3Com Ethernet card for a Vax cost about $1500, if memory serves. --Steve Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb
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