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ncmncm on Oct 4, 2022 | parent | context | favorite | on: Xerox PARC – Office Alto Commercial (1979) [video]

Arcnet was 3 Mbps, I think. Linux had drivers for it until after 2000, and pushed IP packets through it. People loved their Arcnet.

Apple, meanwhile, had AppleTalk over RS-422. Was it 1/2 Mbps?

jecel on Oct 4, 2022 [–]

AppletTalk was 0.23 Mbps.

Arcnet was a token bus (like IEEE 802.4 from General Motors' MAP) and not a token ring (like IEEE 802.5 from IBM's Zurich research).

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