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Very cool! Also cool to see inside. It really is directly attached with nothing in between, I honestly wasn't expecting there to be NOTHING in the signal path.
by kalleboo 7mo ago
Very cool! Also cool to see inside. It really is directly attached with nothing in between, I honestly wasn't expecting there to be NOTHING in the signal path.
> In a sense, it’s a revolutionary way of how to network — it separates the “what” from the “how”. To be fair: that revolution already happened over 20 years ago
How quickly we have forgotten about AUI (Attachment Unit Interface)
- kohlschuetter 7mo agoThanks! AUI: So that's what that port next to the BNC connector on the 3COM 3C509B was for! We've come a long way.
- crote 7mo agoAUI was still very much alive with XAUI[0] during the 10Gbps era! If you're willing to be a little bit more flexible, the MAC-to-PHY distinction never really went away with the various MII generations: every speed from 10Mbps to 10Gbps is available using more-or-less the same interface. [0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XAUI https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XAUI [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Media-independent_interface https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Media-independent_interface