From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Feb 24 15:15:15 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA02222 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Tue, 24 Feb 1998 15:15:15 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from time.cdrom.com (root@time.cdrom.com [204.216.27.226]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA02137 for ; Tue, 24 Feb 1998 15:15:01 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jkh@time.cdrom.com) Received: from time.cdrom.com (jkh@localhost.cdrom.com [127.0.0.1]) by time.cdrom.com (8.8.8/8.6.9) with ESMTP id PAA10618; Tue, 24 Feb 1998 15:14:37 -0800 (PST) To: Adam Turoff cc: hackers , Robert Glover Subject: Re: Token Ring for FreeBSD yet? In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 24 Feb 1998 18:06:00 PST." <34F37C2A@smginc.com> Date: Tue, 24 Feb 1998 15:14:36 -0800 Message-ID: <10614.888362076@time.cdrom.com> From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > 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