Token ring (UK)

From: vance_at_neurotica.com <(vance_at_neurotica.com)>
Date: Wed Jul 23 17:21:01 2003

On Wed, 23 Jul 2003, Tothwolf 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.

There's a significant level of support in BSD for TP, because it came from
IBM AOS.

Peace... Sridhar
Received on Wed Jul 23 2003 - 17:21:01 BST