15 May
2001
15 May
'01
11:26 a.m.
John Allain skrev:
Apollo Token Ring was over peer to peer coax.
Each machine had two ports (ring, like HPIL, not Star) with
pass through. There was a neat Dead Man feature where a
bad node guaranteed to pass all signals through when inactive.
I think there were maximum ring limits. 256?
To build a large network you needed some king of switcher
thingie. Next?
All right, is it compatible with IBM TR?
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