ARCNET is one of the best-kept secrets in the world of embedded systems. You may run into ARCNET technology when you ride a train or drive a car, play a multiplayer racing arcade game or slot machine, ...

LAN technology recently passed a milestone — it has been around for 30 years, some of them tumultuous. But while the LAN seems ubiquitous now, there are those who think its future may be more troubled ...

It allows easy connectivity between PCs and peripherals, because it provides a very high-speed interface—up to 480Mbps—and does not require inserting a separate NIM into the computer, says the vendor.

The AI-USB is an ARCNET hub that is designed to provide easy access to an ARCNET network via a USB port on a PC. “It’s described as a three-port hub—two external ARCNET ports and one internal,” says ...

I disagree with Kevin Tolly including Arcnet in his list of flops. Arcnet was token passing over star-connected coax and worked quite well if you kept the number of stations on a segment to a few ...

Here's news of a new ARCNET card that will work in old and new PCs. What's this? You've never heard of ARCNET? ARCNET was once quite popular in office automation. Recently, it has re-invented itself ...

It is hard to imagine today, but there was a time when there were several competing network technologies. There was Ethernet, of course. But you could also find token ring, DEC Net, EcoNet, and ARCNet ...