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To: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org>
From: dennis@etinc.com (Dennis)
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>> The difference is that token ring is basically crap...not as good as the
>> other alternatives. The mistake that was made with X.25 was that the
>> wrong people decided that it was too slow, and they created something
>> not nearly as good or advanced.....frame relay. The answer 5 years ago
>> was to upgrade equipment, the passive increase in processing power alone
>> was enough to solve the problems...the premise that dumping packets is
>> better than flow control is simply wrong....and SVCs are a real nice way
>> to bypass net problems and we would've  had them in the beginning...and
>> "the net" would look a lot less like the terrible ratsnest it is at this
>> point.
>
>The way I heard the joke told, the replacement point-to-point protocal
>they invented as a replacement was ISDN.

ISDN was designed more as a mechanism to make money for the 
telcos than it was to solve problems.....thats the joke.

Dennis
Emerging Technologies, Inc.
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