Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2001 17:25:32 +1200 From: Joerg Micheel <joerg@cs.waikato.ac.nz> To: Wes Peters <wes@softweyr.com> Cc: Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org>, David Scheidt <dscheidt@tumbolia.com>, 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: <20010720172532.C86361@cs.waikato.ac.nz> In-Reply-To: <3B57C14F.746C95A6@softweyr.com>; from wes@softweyr.com on Thu, Jul 19, 2001 at 11:27:43PM -0600 References: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0107191151550.99842-100000@InterJet.elischer.org> <3B57C14F.746C95A6@softweyr.com>
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On Thu, Jul 19, 2001 at 11:27:43PM -0600, Wes Peters wrote: > 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? ;^) Hmm. Not exactly an oldie myself, but I did have this time warp in my life when coming out of Russia. So, can picture Max' interest in ArcNet, at least at the hobby level. Around here, students build Wavelan's with Lucent cards and an omni antenna and share a 6MBit ADSL link within the neighbourhood. Most students have better Internet access at home for themselves than the whole University :-). 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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