In message <x7r90rxmra.fsf@capsicum.wsrcc.com>, Wolfgang Rupprecht writes:
>It is one of the losing competitors for the 100-Mbit/sec ethernet
>title.  I believe it was essentially an HP-only standard.  (Some folks
>joke that the VG stands for "Virtually Gone".)

Ahh!  With that clue, I find references.

>100BaseVG was originally proposed by Hewlett-Packard, ratified by the ISO in
>1995 and practically extinct by 1998. 

Well, if *anyone* were to support it, I have to agree, it would be NetBSD.

-s