Re: [GTALUG] example of why RISC was a good idea

On 05/22/2016 05:09 PM, D. Hugh Redelmeier wrote:

They also bought into Token Ring for a similar reason. Yet the open ethernet standard and marketplace one. It was just hard for central planners to handle.

Token ring had advantages over coax or hub Ethernet networks with collisions. Switches eliminated those advantages. BTW, I recall trying and failing to get Linux working on a microchannel PS/2 & token ring. I was able to get it going on a ThinkPad with token ring card, but it required a minor change to a config file. I was using Mandrake at the time, IIRC.