Token ring (UK)

From: Jules Richardson <julesrichardsonuk_at_yahoo.co.uk>
Date: Wed Jul 23 12:14:00 2003

>>Nosiree. Any PC, any RS/6000, really, any machine with PCI can do token
>>ring.
>
>Token ring didn't require PCI bus, I have some ISA Token ring cards around
>here somewhere

Yep, Madge and IBM (obviously) made ISA boards. I believe they both made PCMCIA
cards too (IBM certainly did, I still have one somewhere). My old company were
exclusively 16Mbit token-ring up until about three years ago (and crying out
for leads on spare parts back then).

Support for anything other than a Windows/DOS PC was pretty much non-existant
though and as we started using more and more Unix hardware (and the odd Mac,
and Linux on x86) on projects I ended up throwing a bit of Ethernet into the
pot, and things gradually started going that way by the time I left.

cheers

Jules

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