[Info-vax] DE500 and hardware version

Bill Gunshannon billg999 at cs.uofs.edu
Fri Jan 4 08:40:29 EST 2013


In article <nospam-D1E663.13595504012013 at news.chingola.ch>,
	Paul Sture <nospam at sture.ch> writes:
> In article <kc6gav$252$1 at online.de>,
>  helbig at astro.multiCLOTHESvax.de (Phillip Helbig---undress to reply) 
>  wrote:
> 
>> In article <nospam-82F7A9.12110404012013 at news.chingola.ch>, Paul Sture
>> <nospam at sture.ch> writes: 
>> 
>> > I was looking to upgrade my home network to Gigabit ethernet just over a 
>> > year ago and was surprised how much kit in the marketplace was still 
>> > 10/100.  Basically unless Gigabit or 1000 was somewhere in the product 
>> > name or prominent in the description, 10/100 was what you would be 
>> > getting.
>> 
>> Well, consider that the typical home user doesn't run a LAN-based VMS 
>> cluster.  :-|  
> 
> Not a VMS cluster, but every PC sold in the last few years (3-4 years?) 
> has come with GbE, and there are a lot of NAS and media streaming 
> devices on the market.

And just what is the speed of the bus that GbE is sitting on?

bill


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