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    oh no! 3com! —Jennifer L. Boger
   just in case some of you other admins hadn't heard... 3com's getting out of the high end networking business... this is a huge deal for me, since our entire backbone is 3com... all the way from switches to hubs to nics (esp atm nics) thought maybe (...) (24 years ago, 22-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
   
        Re: oh no! 3com! —Matthew Miller
   (...) Nice headline: "3Com Announces Plans to Accelerate Growth". That's going to be interesting here at BU too -- we've got a lot of 3com stuff.... (24 years ago, 22-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
   
        Re: oh no! 3com! —Mike Stanley
   (...) Won't even be noticed here at UTK since we sold our souls to Cisco long, long ago. Unless they stop making 10/100 nics, in which case I would happily switch us over to Intel anyway. (24 years ago, 23-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
   
        Re: oh no! 3com! —Jennifer L. Boger
   (...) rumor has it (i haven't tried myself) that a coworker of mine called to purchase a 10/100 nic and they said "i'm sorry, we don't make those any more" imagine our shock... we only own like 15,000 of them... oh well. (24 years ago, 23-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
 

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