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Pete Zaitcev (zaitcev@shitposter.club)'s status on Sunday, 27-Aug-2023 12:11:41 JSTPete Zaitcev @Moon @xian Nice
It reminded me about my first Ethernet adapter. It was a "vampire tap" AUI on a yellow "frozen snake" cable, and the adapter was a channel card about the size of two U.S. Letter sheets. The Ethernet controller chip had more transistors than the CPU of the minicomputer into which it plugged.