At 11:43 AM -0400 6/9/2003, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
AUUI was Apple's way of (unintentionally) screwing Mac users, by making them use a proprietary connector instead of one of the industry standards. The few Macs that had only AUUI sockets were given bad reviews and left on shelves by the comerical world. Apple quickly added the RJ45 connector...
It's AAUI. Like other things (Serial and SCSI) the reason Apple went to something nonstandard was to conserve back panel space. AAUI is about half the length of AUI. It was in almost all of the Quadra line, some 030's I think and the first PowerMacs so it wasn't in just a few Macs. At the time few if any PCs had built in NICs at all and when Apple first put AAUI in I don't think that 10BaseT was standardized yet so I think they did the right thing.
Oops. AAUI - Apple Attachment Unit Interface. That slipped right by me. Thx for catching it.
10Base, its variants, and its use of the RJ-45 connector, were standardized around 1990. As I recall, Apple was pretty quick to add ethernet as a standard feature...
*shrug* It's all bits'o'data movin thru the aether.
sigh. bbiab. Gotta go mooch some photons.
- Dan.
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