Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2001 23:27:43 -0600 From: Wes Peters <wes@softweyr.com> To: Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org> Cc: Joerg Micheel <joerg@cs.waikato.ac.nz>, David Scheidt <dscheidt@tumbolia.com>, Max Khon <fjoe@iclub.nsu.ru>, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: arcnet support for FreeBSD (request for review) Message-ID: <3B57C14F.746C95A6@softweyr.com> References: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0107191151550.99842-100000@InterJet.elischer.org>
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Julian Elischer wrote:
>
> 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 :-)
Kids these days, eh, Joerg? ;^)
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