Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2001 19:38:49 +1200 From: Joerg Micheel <joerg@cs.waikato.ac.nz> To: David Scheidt <dscheidt@tumbolia.com> Cc: Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org>, Max Khon <fjoe@iclub.nsu.ru>, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, joerg@cs.waikato.ac.nz Subject: Re: arcnet support for FreeBSD (request for review) Message-ID: <20010719193849.X8338@cs.waikato.ac.nz> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.32L2.0107190227370.85736-100000@shell-3.enteract.com>; from dscheidt@tumbolia.com on Thu, Jul 19, 2001 at 02:35:51AM -0500 References: <3B568581.5A798B3E@elischer.org> <Pine.BSF.4.32L2.0107190227370.85736-100000@shell-3.enteract.com>
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On Thu, Jul 19, 2001 at 02:35:51AM -0500, David Scheidt wrote: > On Thu, 19 Jul 2001, Julian Elischer wrote: > > :Max Khon wrote: > :> > :> hi, there! > : > :what is arcnet? > : > > It's a token-based LAN protocol. It's used in some embedded applications, > as its controllers are cheap, it's pretty low-overhead, and has > deterministic behavior (you can calculate the worst case time to send a > message to another station). Industrial controlers and data acquistion are > the two uses that jump out of my memory. David, Julian was kidding you. Read his response again. Joerg -- Joerg B. Micheel Email: <joerg@cs.waikato.ac.nz> WAND and NLANR MOAT Email: <joerg@nlanr.net> The University of Waikato, CompScience Phone: +64 7 8384794 Private Bag 3105 Fax: +64 7 8585095 Hamilton, New Zealand Plan: PMA, TINE and the DAG's To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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