SCO.com and Caldera.com dead

James Knott james.knott-bJEeYj9oJeDQT0dZR+AlfA at public.gmane.org
Wed Sep 3 21:36:01 UTC 2003


Henry Spencer wrote:
> 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.)

That's the way I heard it too.



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