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
