From:	A cohort's CoHort <cohort@******.CONNECTED.COM>
Subject:	Re: Ahhhhhhh replay
Date:	Fri, 15 Apr 1994 04:53:53 -0700

On Thu, 14 Apr 1994, Mark Imbriaco wrote:
> Yes, ATM stands for Aysnchronus Transfer Mode. It is synonymous
> to Ethernet, only using fiber instead of Ethernet cable. We have a beta
> setup here, and it is the extremely low-end version, only 150 Megabit.
> :-) The current maximum is, I believe, 1 Gigabit.
>
Huh? ATM has nothing to do with Ethernet, let alone being synonymous
with it. And the medium (fiber, twisted-pair, etc) really has nothing to
do with it.
The "IEEE Spectrum" magazine a few months ago had a nifty article fully
explaining ATM. Good reading. I suggest it to anyone working with any
form of networking (telecom, ethernet, WAN, etc) as a reference to the tech.

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