Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2001 02:35:51 -0500 (CDT) From: David Scheidt <dscheidt@tumbolia.com> To: Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org> Cc: Max Khon <fjoe@iclub.nsu.ru>, <freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: arcnet support for FreeBSD (request for review) Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.32L2.0107190227370.85736-100000@shell-3.enteract.com> In-Reply-To: <3B568581.5A798B3E@elischer.org>
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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
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