Date: Tue, 24 Feb 1998 15:14:36 -0800 From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> To: Adam Turoff <AdamT@smginc.com> Cc: hackers <hackers@FreeBSD.ORG>, Robert Glover <rob@f-body.org> Subject: Re: Token Ring for FreeBSD yet? Message-ID: <10614.888362076@time.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 24 Feb 1998 18:06:00 PST." <34F37C2A@smginc.com>
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> 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. Jordan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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