Neil Croft wrote in a message to Mike Bilow:
 MB> You will not need it.  AUI/ThickNet was a bad idea that is no 
 MB> longer used.
 NC> Would you like a wager on that one Mike? ICL mainframes use 
 NC> Thicknet as the transport medium for OSLAN which is an ethernet 
 NC> protocol. This I know from regular, painful experience. =o)
Many devices have AUI/ThickNet 10Base-5 connectors on them, but any 
reasonable person will immediately convert that through a transceiver to 
either coax/ThinNet 10Base-2 or UTP 10Base-T.  I have exactly one client left 
who has an actual run of ThickNet, and that has survived only because it is a 
factory floor where it would be more expensive to replace it.  Even that one 
client uses UTP for runs in new areas of their facility.
Most mainframe operations we deal with have SNA, "boa" channel cables, or 
ESCON fiber.  If a mainframe operation has Ethernet, it is likely that it was 
installed fairly recently and that it is UTP.
 
-- Mike
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