From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Feb 24 18:51:01 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id SAA10709 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Tue, 24 Feb 1998 18:51:01 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from camel14.mindspring.com (camel14.mindspring.com [207.69.200.64]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id SAA10656 for ; Tue, 24 Feb 1998 18:50:51 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kpneal@pobox.com) Received: from kpneal.users.mindspring.com (user-38ld9k3.dialup.mindspring.com [209.86.166.131]) by camel14.mindspring.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id VAA11614; Tue, 24 Feb 1998 21:50:45 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <1.5.4.32.19980225025046.008e8ca4@mail.mindspring.com> X-Sender: kpneal@mail.mindspring.com X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Light Version 1.5.4 (32) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Tue, 24 Feb 1998 21:50:46 -0500 To: Dave Marquardt From: "Kevin P. Neal" Subject: Re: Token Ring for FreeBSD yet? Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG At 07:49 PM 2/24/98 -0600, Dave Marquardt wrote: >"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? >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. Not surprising, considering IBM. IBM (or at least IBM in RTP, NC) has a _huge_ Token Ring network. We're talking networks of networks of Token Ring. Literally, there several thousand people sitting on the Token Ring networks inside IBM. Token Ring isn't quite dead yet, not as long as IBM is still kicking. -- XCOMM Kevin P. Neal, Junior, Comp. Sci. - House of Retrocomputing XCOMM mailto:kpneal@pobox.com - http://www.pobox.com/~kpn/ XCOMM kpneal@eos.ncsu.edu Spoken by Keir Finlow-Bates: XCOMM "Good grief, I've just noticed I've typed in a rant. Sorry chaps!" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message