At 11:17 AM 1/23/00 , Jason Thorpe wrote:
>On Sun, 23 Jan 2000 04:08:08 -0500 
>  Chris Tribo <talon16m@hotmail.com> wrote:
>
>  >     Than someone needs to update the notes on system models page on
>  > netbsd.org. As it sais DEFZA is the copper and DEFTA is the fiber FDDI. Or
>  > are they both fiber?
>
>The page is wrong.  I hae a DEFZA, and it's definitely fiber.  DEFZA is
>merely an older-generation FDDI interface than the DEFTA.

There were copper DEFZAs running FDDI over *ThinWire* (RG58).  This was
using a technique developed by Cresendo called CDDI before the TP-PMD was
done by ANSI.
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