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Nostalgic! I used LapLink a lot back in the days. When Ethernet became affordable I was baffled by the speed of data transfer. Lightning fast! Written from a m

by danrl 4y ago

Nostalgic! I used LapLink a lot back in the days. When Ethernet became affordable I was baffled by the speed of data transfer. Lightning fast! Written from a mobile phone with 5G. Tell me about exponential growth.

mmastrac 4y ago
I started out with 10mbps links and those were gloriously fast. I even had a 3com card in a 386 that was running linux.
- bombcar 4y ago
  The communications speed vs disk size ratio was better back then I feel. A computer with no disk drive and only a floppy with a 10mb/s card wasn’t unheard of.
  - mmastrac 4y ago
    Totally. Pre-ultra-DMA IDE would have been in the same ballpark as 10mb/s.