Date: Wed, 25 Feb 98 12:05:00 PST From: Adam Turoff <AdamT@smginc.com> To: hackers <hackers@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: RE: Token Ring for FreeBSD yet? Message-ID: <34F478F8@smginc.com>
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Dave writes: > Robert Withrow <witr@rwwa.com> writes: > > marquard@zilker.net said: > > :- 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. > > > > While everyone else is *making* Gigabit Ethernets. > > Including IBM. > > I work for IBM, so I can speak to this a little. IBM has all of these > large corporate customers (including IBM itself) that have a big > investment in Token Ring. If they can keep these people happy by > creating 100 Mb/sec. token ring on the same wiring, they'll make some > money. That's what's driving IBM. IBM is of sufficient size that anything you say about it is true. I'll buy that they're selling both 100 Mbit Token Ring and Ethernet. I wouldn't be surprised if they're using 2400 Baud terminal connections, either. > Anyway, if you don't like Token Ring, don't buy it. Good point. Can we continue with our regularly scheduled programming please? :-) -- Adam. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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