Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2001 11:52:37 -0700 (PDT) From: Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org> To: Joerg Micheel <joerg@cs.waikato.ac.nz> Cc: 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: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0107191151550.99842-100000@InterJet.elischer.org> In-Reply-To: <20010719193849.X8338@cs.waikato.ac.nz>
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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 :-) > > 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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