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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? 
Date: Wed, 25 Feb 1998 06:12:01 -0500
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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
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