From: quanstro@quanstro.net
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] Any one going to change to sata disks?
Date: Fri, 30 Jun 2006 09:10:26 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4a05f34acd809d38636f25e9032f3728@quanstro.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4899200bc74416c9b039971bfb0dbdaf@coraid.com>
ethernet could have been a failure for many non-technical reasons.
it just happened to be at the right place at the right time. and when
problems like collisions (remember 10base(2|5)?) good solutions like
switching hubs were possible.
as for speed, that's the power of new-fangled noise reduction.
- erik
On Fri Jun 30 09:03:26 CDT 2006, brantley@coraid.com wrote:
> > A quarter-century later, ethernet continues to amaze. It started out at
> > 3 mbits, is now at 10 gbits, and somehow it all works, and it can be
> > programmed at low levels without inordinate pain. Probably, in large
> > part, because it didn't promise too much, and hence did not require too
> > much. And, it was designed by a couple of smart guys, not a comittee of
> > vendors working on "value adds" and "lock in".
>
> The power of simplicity.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-06-30 14:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-06-29 19:13 Francisco J Ballesteros
2006-06-29 19:18 ` Brantley Coile
2006-06-29 19:54 ` jmk
2006-06-29 21:03 ` andrey mirtchovski
2006-06-29 21:35 ` jmk
2006-06-29 21:49 ` Ronald G Minnich
2006-06-29 21:54 ` geoff
2006-06-29 22:00 ` andrey mirtchovski
2006-06-29 22:01 ` Francisco J Ballesteros
2006-06-29 22:57 ` Ronald G Minnich
2006-06-30 14:00 ` Brantley Coile
2006-06-30 14:10 ` quanstro [this message]
2006-06-30 14:28 ` Brantley Coile
2006-06-30 15:00 ` quanstro
2006-06-30 15:36 ` Brantley Coile
2006-06-30 0:17 ` Jack Johnson
2006-06-30 0:48 ` jmk
2006-06-30 0:52 ` geoff
2006-06-30 16:09 ` Jack Johnson
2006-06-30 16:53 ` Jack Johnson
2006-06-30 18:28 ` jmk
2006-06-30 18:32 ` Ronald G Minnich
2006-06-30 18:36 ` Re: " andrey mirtchovski
2006-06-30 19:13 ` jmk
2006-06-30 20:16 ` David Leimbach
2006-06-30 19:04 ` Jack Johnson
2006-06-30 22:33 ` geoff
2006-07-01 4:17 ` geoff
2006-06-29 22:06 ` geoff
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