skip@gatech.UUCP (11/09/83)
Judging from a question or two that I've gotten, let me clear up one
possibly misleading point about the AT&T LAN (the Wide-band Premise
Network). The bus is less than a meter long and is basicly the backplane
that the interface boards plug into. I suspect that it is, in fact, less
than 19 inches long so that it will fit comfortably in a 19 inch rack.
Overall, the LAN looks like a star configuration, but except for the
central clock and address translator, there is no single point of failure.
Of course, those aren't minor exceptions....
-- skip addison {emory,akgua,allegra,rlgvax}!gatech!skip