Re: DECstation 5000/200 questions
"M. Warner Losh" <[email protected]>
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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