SCO.com and Caldera.com dead

Henry Spencer henry-lqW1N6Cllo0sV2N9l4h3zg at public.gmane.org
Wed Sep 3 21:09:38 UTC 2003


On Wed, 3 Sep 2003, James Knott wrote:
> > (Although the early experimental Ethernet within Xerox ran at 3Mbit.)
> 
> Actually, it was slightly below that at 2.94 Mb/s.

Picky, picky, picky... :-)

(If memory serves, they'd wanted 3, but 2.94 turned out to be what they
could derive easily from available clock sources in the Alto, and the
board was very tight for space and not having to include their own clock
oscillator was a real advantage.)

                                                          Henry Spencer
                                                       henry-lqW1N6Cllo0sV2N9l4h3zg at public.gmane.org

--
The Toronto Linux Users Group.      Meetings: http://tlug.ss.org
TLUG requests: Linux topics, No HTML, wrap text below 80 columns
How to UNSUBSCRIBE: http://tlug.ss.org/subscribe.shtml





More information about the Legacy mailing list