DeVerm wrote: > pfarrell;346592 Wrote: >> Have you measured it with collisions? Back in ancient times, there were >> huge technical debates over token ring vs Ethernet. Because token >> ring's performance with contention was essentially fixed, and >> Ethernet's is probabilistic. > > Yeah but ethernet won didn't it?! The reason is that although it's > internals aren't as nicely & cleanly organized as token-ring, it > slapped around the tokens' ears with better performance.
We are way OT. In practice the performance was a wash. And 3COM was selling NICs for $50, while IBM was charging $90 for the cable to connect a wallplate to the NIC. Economic won. Almost as good and 80% cheaper wins every time. Just as the CD was not designed as a replacement for the LP. It was a replacement for the cassette tape, and it did a great job at that -- Pat Farrell http://www.pfarrell.com/ _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
