Bradley Wilson writes:
> I'm sitting here reading Lou Rossi's Token Ring paper, and right off the bat
> I have a question:
>
> He says that token ring is "a physical ring and a logical bus" - but isn't
> this backward? Isn't it a physical bus and a logical ring? We're not
> physically connecting stations together in a ring - they're all plugged into
> a MAU and the "ring" is a logical entity inside the MAU, isn't it?
More like physically a star, electrically a ring, logically ...
well, logically it *is* a ring. Maybe he means it's a broadcast
technology rather than p-t-p.
Cheers,
Willis Marti
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