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From: rbowman <bowman@montana.com>
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Subject: Re: The Joys of Motorola
Date: 13 Jan 2025 00:19:04 GMT
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On Sun, 12 Jan 2025 14:40:46 -0000 (UTC), Lars Poulsen wrote:

> I think it was 1981 that Motorola announced the LANCE chip, which made
> Ethernet practical. Lots of companies designed products around it, but
> in the end it was 2 years late to ship production quantities.

The early '80s were insane. Companies were quoting delivery dates out a 
year or more. If you could dangle a high volume order you might get better 
treatment but the company I was with didn't operate on that scale. The 
8751 would have been a better choice but we could get 8749s.