> "Tandy has developed a sleeping giant of a local area network system."
Actually, ARCNET was developed at Datapoint by John Murphy in 1976 and released in 1977, especially for the Datapoint 2200. It became available for a lot of systems and rivalled other LAN standards, like Token Ring or Novell's NetWare (and, apparently, in rare cases, it's still in use for process control.) In its day it was a giant to be aware of.
Tandy was just one of the many adopters of ARCNET.
Actually, ARCNET was developed at Datapoint by John Murphy in 1976 and released in 1977, especially for the Datapoint 2200. It became available for a lot of systems and rivalled other LAN standards, like Token Ring or Novell's NetWare (and, apparently, in rare cases, it's still in use for process control.) In its day it was a giant to be aware of.
Tandy was just one of the many adopters of ARCNET.