From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Jul 19 0:36:45 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from smtp-2.enteract.com (smtp-2.enteract.com [207.229.143.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E628137B401 for ; Thu, 19 Jul 2001 00:36:32 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dscheidt@tumbolia.com) Received: from shell-3.enteract.com (shell-3.enteract.com [207.229.143.42]) by smtp-2.enteract.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 078396874; Thu, 19 Jul 2001 02:35:51 -0500 (CDT) Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2001 02:35:51 -0500 (CDT) From: David Scheidt X-X-Sender: To: Julian Elischer Cc: Max Khon , Subject: Re: arcnet support for FreeBSD (request for review) In-Reply-To: <3B568581.5A798B3E@elischer.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 19 Jul 2001, Julian Elischer wrote: :Max Khon wrote: :> :> hi, there! : :what is arcnet? : It's a token-based LAN protocol. It's used in some embedded applications, as its controllers are cheap, it's pretty low-overhead, and has deterministic behavior (you can calculate the worst case time to send a message to another station). Industrial controlers and data acquistion are the two uses that jump out of my memory. -- dscheidt@tumbolia.com Bipedalism is only a fad. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message