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- From: jstewart@alfred.carleton.ca (John Stewart)
- Subject: Re: Sparc 10's are 10BASE-T
- Message-ID: <jstewart.722147880@cunews>
- Sender: news@cunews.carleton.ca (News Administrator)
- Organization: Carleton University
- References: <1992Nov19.003959.6608@news2.cis.umn.edu>
- Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 04:38:00 GMT
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- In <1992Nov19.003959.6608@news2.cis.umn.edu> pete@lynx.spa.umn.edu (Pete Thurmes) writes:
-
- >A word of caution when ordering a Sparcstation 10:
-
- >Sun is now shipping the Sparc 10's, but when I received mine I found out
- >that Sun has apparently departed from their old standard of putting
- >thickwire Ethernet ports on all their workstations. The Sparc 10 comes
- >with twisted pair, standard! To connect thickwire, you need (surprise!)
- >a $60 adaptor cable that turns the audio (AUI) port into a dual port
- >(audio and thickwire Enet). Pretty bogus, huh?
-
- >So be sure to budget an additional $60 (and order it *with* your box,
- >or you'll wait 5 days for Sun"Express") if you don't use 10BASE-T (i.e.
- >if your Sun is not a PC server).
-
- What's a Sun PC server?
-
- >Just another example of expensive corporate silliness.
-
- I was overjoyed to see that the Sparc 10 has a 10Base-T port. We only
- provide 10Base-T connections to our campus ethernet so this actually
- saves us the cost of a 10Base-T transceiver.
-
- Sun should be congradulated for this far sighted decision.
- --
- John Stewart -- Computing and Communications Services, Carleton University
- Internet: jstewart@ccs.carleton.ca or Mr.Canoehead@algonquin.carleton.ca
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