Subj : Re: Novell NetWare :)
To   : Spectre
From : acn
Date : Wed Jun 09 2021 10:50:00

Am 09.06.21 schrieb Spectre@21:3/101 in FSX_RETRO:

Hallo Spectre,

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

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

Hmm, as Token-Ring had 16 MBit/s and Ethernet had 10 MBit/s, at least the  
nominal speed was higher.
And I remember that copying files between my Linux machines really was  
fast and made use of that speed in my TR network.
So it really outperformed a 10 MBit/s Ethernet network...

Regards,
Anna

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