Date: Wed, 25 Feb 1998 06:12:01 -0500 From: "Tom Torrance" <tom@tomqnx.com> To: "Adam Turoff" <AdamT@smginc.com>, "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> Cc: "hackers" <hackers@FreeBSD.ORG>, "Robert Glover" <rob@f-body.org> Subject: Re: Token Ring for FreeBSD yet? Message-ID: <004401bd41de$32670780$032b96cd@darkstar.tomqnx.com>
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Dead? I don't think so. We have 43,000 people on TR where I work. Small business popularity does not equate to corporate. Regards, Tom -----Original Message----- 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> Date: February 24, 1998 8:17 PM Subject: Re: Token Ring for FreeBSD yet? >> 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 > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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