Re: arcnet support for FreeBSD (request for review)

[Joerg Micheel]

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.

        Joerg
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