Re: what about 48 bits?

On 04/07/2010 04:18 AM, Joe Greco wrote:

To me, this is a Dilbert-class engineering failure. I would imagine that if you could implement a hub on the network card, the same chip(s) would work in an external tin can with a separate power supply. Designing a product that actually exhibits a worse failure mode than 10base2 is ... strange to me.

This reminds of me of the failure-mode-within-a-failure-mode of 10b2 with vaxstation2000's using vms's vaxcluster software. Unplugging the 10b2 gave you a window of about 10 seconds before one by one every vaxstation2000 would bugcheck. I was always rather astonished that nobody at DEC either noticed it, or thought it was a very big deal because the bug survived a long time. Mike