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[James Knott <james.knott@xxxxxxxxxx>]

G T Smith wrote:
>
> At that time with a 4/16Mb bandwidth range, dual ring tolerance (you had
> to chop the cable twice to break the ring) and a very stable loading
> characteristic, it was a faster and more reliable option than ethernet
> at a max of 10Mbs. Token Ring networks only tended to slow down when all
> tokens were in use, whereas for ethernet because of contention issues
> the only time you are likely to use the full bandwidth was if you have
> only two machines on the line working in duplex. One or two machines can
> flatten a whole segment, something that impossible with token ring.
>
> Variants of the technology are still in use high speed backbones.
http://www.cse.wustl.edu/~jain/cse473-05/ftp/i_9lan/sld015.htm  ;-)
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