Subj : Re: Novell NetWare :)
To   : acn
From : Spectre
Date : Wed Jun 09 2021 15:04:00

 ac> Yep. And so Token-Ring had a real advantage :)

I believe it was a bit horses for courses... an over large ethernet could ¨have bad collision problems, and multiple collision problems as the fallback ¨was stop for a predetermined time and try again, so two of more nodes with ¨collisions could keep colliding. But in a low utilisation/node density you ¨could get better throughput than with token-ring.  But a load that could ¨bring ethernet to its knees would still be chugging along with token ring.  A ¨little like comparing a diseasal to petrol/gas or a racehorse to a war-horse ¨to completely different schools of thought.

Spec


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