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Fri Apr 23 09:19:49 1982
Title: IBM offers local area network/WSJ
From: lime!vax135!floyd!harpo!eagle!mhuxt!mhuxa!mhuxh!rdlib
"IBM is challenging the likes of Arcnet, Ethernet, WangNet in the
electronic office business. These are local area networks, communications
links that let computer-based equipment in the office or factory share
information, data-storage space and special devices like electronic
printers. ... Now, IBM has tipped its hand on plans for a network
system (baseband) significantly different from most of its rivals.
.. IBM favors wiring machines together to form an electronic circle
while other networks use a backbone wire to which equipment is attached
like branches on a tree trunk. Also, IBM's network would transfer data
to the connecting wire by a method called 'token-passing.' Other
systems, both baseband and broadband, use a transfer method called
CSMA/CD, for carrier sense multiple access/collision detection. ...
IBM also thinks its system is better suited for wiring with fiber-
optic cable. Many expect fiber optics will be the base of future
local area network systems, instead of today's telephone-type or
coaxial cable."
Wall Street Journal, 3/26/82, p29
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