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Date: Fri, 30 Jun 2006 09:10:26 -0500
From: quanstro@quanstro.net
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] Any one going to change to sata disks?
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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.