On Apr 5, 2010, at 1:43 52PM, valdis.kletni...@vt.edu wrote:
> On Mon, 05 Apr 2010 13:29:20 EDT, Jay Nakamura said:
>>>> I would have attributed the success of Ethernet to price!
>>>>
>>>>
>>> You've got the causality wrong -- it wasn't cheap, way back when.
>>
>> I remember back in '93~94ish (I think) you could get a off brand 10BT
>> card for less than $100, as oppose to Token Ring which was $300~400.
>> I can't remember anything else that was cheaper back then. If you go
>> back before that, I don't know.
>
> Steve is talking mid-80s pricing, not mid-90s. By '93 or so, the fact
> that Ethernet was becoming ubiquitous had already forced the price down.
Yup. 10 years earlier, a 3Com Ethernet card for a Vax cost about $1500, if
memory serves.
--Steve Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb
