Subj : Re: Networking my Vintage Homelab
To   : Spectre
From : tenser
Date : Tue Dec 05 2023 13:11:20

On 05 Dec 2023 at 06:20a, Spectre pondered and said...
 
 Sp>  pF> They were proprietary, not Ethernet. I'm pretty sure ARCnet was 5 mbp
 Sp>  pF> which ended up performing as well if not better than Ethernet since i
 Sp>  pF> didn't have issues with collisions. ARCnet was a token-passing algori
 Sp>  pF> like Token Ring.
 Sp> 
 Sp> Hehe, horses for courses... Ethernet without significant load ought to be
 Sp> faster than Token Ring. Of course as soon as you load it up, and CD and
 Sp> resolution were a bit more ordinary.. Only ever saw the odd ARCnet
 Sp> card.. and by the TokenRing cards were popping up, thin ethernet was
 Sp> already in use.. There's also meant to be an 8Mbp TokenRing too If'n I
 Sp> recall right..

Depends on the TokenRing.  TR was at 16 Mbps when Ethernet
was still capped at 10 Mbps, and of course, it would scale
better as the number of stations on the network increased.
(Linear versus quadratic.)  By the time of Fast (100 Mbps)
switched Ethernet, though, TokenRing was obsolete.  But aside
from the frame format, ethernet today bears little resemblance
to the original Ethernet developed at PARC (which was actually
3 Mbps....).

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