Arcnet was something I read about back in the 1980s but never encountered. Worked at places that strung good old coax for Ethernet or Token Ring before LattisN

Arcnet was something I read about back in the 1980s but never encountered. Worked at places that strung good old coax for Ethernet or Token Ring before LattisNet boxes turned the industry upside-down. For about 12 months there the LattisNet products were the hottest thing in networking and the rest of the industry seemed to be in catch-up mode. From that video Arcnet seems self limiting in a way that Ethernet never was - only using a byte for the workstation address seems...shortsighted.