Re: DECstation 5000/200 questions

"M. Warner Losh" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.os.netbsd.ports.pmax
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Back in June der Mouse <[email protected]> wrote:
: This was 10base5.  (As I understand it, the 10 is the bit rate,
: megabits per second; the "base" stands for "baseband"; and the 5 has
: something to do with the cable, but I'm not sure what - fuzzy memory
: says it's the maximum cable length in hundreds of metres.)

'5' is the diameter of the cable in tenths of an inch.  10base2 was
much smaller, a little under a quarter of an inch.

Warner
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