From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Feb 24 17:49:38 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA29880 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Tue, 24 Feb 1998 17:49:38 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from localhost.zilker.net (jump-x2-1189.jumpnet.com [207.8.67.189]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA29873 for ; Tue, 24 Feb 1998 17:49:27 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from marquard@zilker.net) Received: (from marquard@localhost) by localhost.zilker.net (8.8.8/8.8.3) id TAA23441; Tue, 24 Feb 1998 19:49:06 -0600 (CST) To: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Token Ring for FreeBSD yet? References: <10614.888362076@time.cdrom.com> From: Dave Marquardt Date: 24 Feb 1998 19:49:05 -0600 In-Reply-To: "Jordan K. Hubbard"'s message of "Tue, 24 Feb 1998 15:14:36 -0800" Message-ID: <85afbg314e.fsf@localhost.zilker.net> Lines: 19 X-Mailer: Quassia Gnus v0.22/XEmacs 19.16 - "Lille" Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG "Jordan K. Hubbard" writes: > > 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. I sure wish someone would tell IBM! :-) IBM (and perhaps some others--I don't quite recall) are now talking about 100 Mb/sec Token Ring. -Dave To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message