Roger Critchlow wrote: > The solutions proposed to solve the melt down, such as token ring and > ATM, mostly involve a less anarchic sharing algorithm. Yet the most > successful solution to the melt down has been to increase the size of > the shared resource. Well, the fix is by in large switching (e.g. stop lights and area specific transports), not just a single faster shared medium. Switching puts an upper limit on the impact of any one user on the network.
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