Newsgroups: comp.dcom.lans
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: 802.* a cornucopia ?
Message-ID: <1988Aug25.170927.4497@utzoo.uucp>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <10400002@osiris.cso.uiuc.edu> <4942@cos.com> <1988Aug15.170727.24258@utzoo.uucp> <1677@spdcc.COM> <1988Aug18.165532.26169@utzo <1715@spdcc.COM>
Date: Thu, 25 Aug 88 17:09:27 GMT

In article <1715@spdcc.COM> eli@spdcc.COM (Steve Elias) writes:
>	... one idea of 802.4 is to be have a
>	"more" deterministic network access time, apparently.  i 
>	really don't know if this works in practice, though i suppose
>	it probably does, since there are factory networks using .4.

Careful:  all you can infer from the use of 802.4 is that it works.  Not
that it works better than 802.3 would.
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