Token ring (UK)

From: Tothwolf <tothwolf_at_concentric.net>
Date: Wed Jul 23 16:57:01 2003

On Wed, 23 Jul 2003 vance_at_neurotica.com wrote:
> On Tue, 22 Jul 2003, Geoff Reed wrote:
> > At 10:24 PM 7/22/03 -0400, you wrote:
> >
> > > 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
>
> Yes, but the ISA token ring cards aren't as well supported as the PCI
> ones.

Of course the real reason for that is that many, many more chipsets were
used for ISA cards, whereas there are only a handful of chipsets that are
used for PCI cards. Some OS such as Linux are gaining more and more
support for these kinds of boards, though it would be nice if *BSD had the
same level of support.

-Toth
Received on Wed Jul 23 2003 - 16:57:01 BST

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