On Wed, Jul 16, 2003 at 02:42:30PM -0700, Henry B. Hotz wrote:
> The box implements the CSMA/CD (Carrier Sense Multiple Access with
> Collision Detection) for LocalTalk

appletalk is collision avoidance, not detection... the idea being that
multiple transmitters will simply garble the line and be ignored by the
recievers.  ethernet is CSMA/CD.

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