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.
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