The Collapsed LAN: a Solution to a Bandwidth Problem? M a u r i c e W i l k e s and A n d r e w H o p p e r O l i v e t t i and Oracle R e s e a r c h L a b o r a t o r y Cambridge, England mwilkes@orl, co. uk; ahopperOorl, co. uk W h e n people first began to connect computers to t e r m i n a l s a n d c o m p u t e r s to each other, it was n a t u r a l t h a t t h e y should use for the purpose copper pairs supplied by the telephone company. By t h e late 1970s, copper pairs were fast b e c o m i n g i n a d e q u a t e and m o d e r n LANs began to m a k e their appearance. T h e resulting increase of b a n d w i d t h - from a few
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