Date: Fri, 30 Aug 1996 13:45:33 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> To: dennis@etinc.com (Dennis) Cc: regnauld@tetard.glou.eu.org, hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: X25 Message-ID: <199608302045.NAA01062@phaeton.artisoft.com> In-Reply-To: <199608301831.OAA29827@etinc.com> from "Dennis" at Aug 30, 96 02:31:28 pm
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> The difference is that token ring is basically crap...not as good as the > other alternatives. The mistake that was made with X.25 was that the > wrong people decided that it was too slow, and they created something > not nearly as good or advanced.....frame relay. The answer 5 years ago > was to upgrade equipment, the passive increase in processing power alone > was enough to solve the problems...the premise that dumping packets is > better than flow control is simply wrong....and SVCs are a real nice way > to bypass net problems and we would've had them in the beginning...and > "the net" would look a lot less like the terrible ratsnest it is at this > point. The way I heard the joke told, the replacement point-to-point protocal they invented as a replacement was ISDN. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.
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