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From: Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org>
To: Joerg Micheel <joerg@cs.waikato.ac.nz>
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	Max Khon <fjoe@iclub.nsu.ru>, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: arcnet support for FreeBSD (request for review)
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On Thu, 19 Jul 2001, Joerg Micheel wrote:

> 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.

 I'm flattered that you think I was kidding..
actually I had no clue what Arcnet was :-)


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