5 Apr
2010
5 Apr
'10
12:42 p.m.
On Apr 5, 2010, at 12:09 02PM, Jay Nakamura wrote:
negotiation and backward compatibility. I think that one of the reasons for the continuing success of "Ethernet" technologies has been implementation simplicity and 100% compatibility above the level of the NIC.
I would have attributed the success of Ethernet to price!
You've got the causality wrong -- it wasn't cheap, way back when. --Steve Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb