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Some of the first LAN parties I participated in included Doom over IPX, using 10BASE2 ethernet adapters... in fact I just now put a BNC connector from those day
by sbuttgereit 4y ago
Some of the first LAN parties I participated in included Doom over IPX, using 10BASE2 ethernet adapters... in fact I just now put a BNC connector from those days down on my desk.
Ah simpler times... or were they :-)
- nradov 4y agoThe first version of Doom caused IPX network meltdowns because it used the broadcast address on every Ethernet packet, thus triggering a huge number of interrupts on every node. https://twitter.com/ID_AA_Carmack/status/1262538074610978819 https://twitter.com/ID_AA_Carmack/status/1262538074610978819
- TedDoesntTalk 4y ago> Ah simpler times... or were they :-) No, definitely not simpler. Different problems for sure, but not simpler.
- hestefisk 4y agoAh yes, the memories of early LAN parties before switches and cat5. You would configure a network with 5(0?) ohm terminators in both ends. When someone had to leave had to break the bnc wire and start all over. It could really hurt is you disconnected the network and touched the centre of the coax cable. I grew up with token ring/ AS400 / OS2, so NetWare was always foreign and exotic to me.