From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Feb 24 22:06:24 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id WAA14070 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Tue, 24 Feb 1998 22:06:24 -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 WAA14065 for ; Tue, 24 Feb 1998 22:06:17 -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 WAA15139; Tue, 24 Feb 1998 22:05:36 -0800 (PST) To: jak@cetlink.net (John Kelly) cc: Tom , Michael.Bielicki@linkdesign.com, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Token Ring for FreeBSD yet? In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 25 Feb 1998 07:00:19 GMT." <34f7c0ad.8650028@mail.cetlink.net> Date: Tue, 24 Feb 1998 22:05:36 -0800 Message-ID: <15135.888386736@time.cdrom.com> From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > I think it was somebody named "Jordan" when he said something about > token ring being so "dead" that it wasn't even worth the effort of > writing any code for. Hey, I was just going by the evidence in front of me (4 year's worth of discussion about token ring and no actual implementation of same by all those folks saying how much they liked/wanted/needed TR support). I wasn't attempting to turn this into an ongoing debate. Someone also sent me private mail also saying "gee, thanks a lot for shooting down our token ring porting effort, you knob!" and I replied that if yet another token ring effort had started up then it was certainly news to me and I wished them luck, albeit with a certain cynicism about their chances based on past experience with all the other folks who claimed to be doing the same work and then just vanished into thin air. > I guess the Linux folks had a different viewpoint. More likely they were simply lucky enough to manage to find someone with both the equipment and the wherewithall to do the work involved. We've never run into the same situation here and I do hope that this latest effort doesn't go the way of the previous ones, but we'll just have to see.. Jordan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message