Date: 24 Feb 1998 19:49:05 -0600 From: Dave Marquardt <marquard@zilker.net> To: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Token Ring for FreeBSD yet? Message-ID: <85afbg314e.fsf@localhost.zilker.net> In-Reply-To: "Jordan K. Hubbard"'s message of "Tue, 24 Feb 1998 15:14:36 -0800" References: <10614.888362076@time.cdrom.com>
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"Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> writes: > > Token Ring is the most expensive, slowest networking protocol on the > > planet(*). Why wouldn't a slick, fast OS like FreeBSD support it? > > Actually, while it may be more expensive (and I guess that depends on > whether or not you just inheirited a truckload of TR gear from some > company abandoning it and didn't have to pay a cent :-), I don't think > it's exactly the *slowest* - doesn't TR operate at 16MBit/sec as > opposed to the 10MBit/sec of your more pedestrian ethernet? > > None of which refutes my original point, of course, which is that it's > still dead dead dead dead dead. It's dead, Jim, and it's not coming > back for the sequel. Time to move on. I sure wish someone would tell IBM! :-) IBM (and perhaps some others--I don't quite recall) are now talking about 100 Mb/sec Token Ring. -Dave To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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