From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Jul 19 0:39:39 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from taupo.cs.waikato.ac.nz (taupo.cs.waikato.ac.nz [130.217.241.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 191DD37B401 for ; Thu, 19 Jul 2001 00:39:36 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from joerg@taupo.cs.waikato.ac.nz) Received: (from joerg@localhost) by taupo.cs.waikato.ac.nz (8.11.3/8.11.1) id f6J7cnh33069; Thu, 19 Jul 2001 19:38:49 +1200 (NZST) (envelope-from joerg) Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2001 19:38:49 +1200 From: Joerg Micheel To: David Scheidt Cc: Julian Elischer , Max Khon , freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, joerg@cs.waikato.ac.nz Subject: Re: arcnet support for FreeBSD (request for review) Message-ID: <20010719193849.X8338@cs.waikato.ac.nz> References: <3B568581.5A798B3E@elischer.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: ; from dscheidt@tumbolia.com on Thu, Jul 19, 2001 at 02:35:51AM -0500 Organization: Dept of Computer Science, University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand Project: WAND - Waikato Applied Network Dynamics, DAG Operating-System: ... powered by FreeBSD 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, Jul 19, 2001 at 02:35:51AM -0500, David Scheidt wrote: > 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. David, Julian was kidding you. Read his response again. Joerg -- Joerg B. Micheel Email: WAND and NLANR MOAT Email: The University of Waikato, CompScience Phone: +64 7 8384794 Private Bag 3105 Fax: +64 7 8585095 Hamilton, New Zealand Plan: PMA, TINE and the DAG's To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message