24 Nov
2008
24 Nov
'08
11:32 a.m.
Dave Mitton wrote:
(my memory is fuzzy on that now.) God I'd love to see what happened to
the customers that swore that token ring was so superior to Ethernet
that it was going to rule their networks going forward.
Well, when I interviewed with Bank of America in 2004 I did so in their
Concord Tech Center in Concord, California. At the end, as I was walked
out to the elevators to leave, my escort let slip that they had only
just a few months earlier switched the desktop networking on that floor
over to Ethernet.
I nearly walked simply because they were using Token Ring after the year
2000...
--S.