22 Jul
2003
22 Jul
'03
11:43 p.m.
At 10:24 PM 7/22/03 -0400, you wrote:
Nosiree. Any PC, any RS/6000, really, any machine with
PCI can do token
ring.
Token ring didn't require PCI bus, I have some ISA Token ring cards around
here somewhere
22 Jul
22 Jul
11:59 p.m.
Yes, but the ISA token ring cards aren't as well supported as the PCI
ones.
Peace... Sridhar
On Tue, 22 Jul 2003, Geoff Reed wrote:
At 10:24 PM 7/22/03 -0400, you wrote:
Nosiree. Any PC, any RS/6000, really, any machine
with PCI can do token
ring.
Token ring didn't require PCI bus, I have some ISA Token ring cards around
here somewhere 
23 Jul
23 Jul
4:57 p.m.
On Wed, 23 Jul 2003 vance(a)neurotica.com wrote:
On Tue, 22 Jul 2003, Geoff Reed wrote:
Of course the real reason for that is that many, many more chipsets were
used for ISA cards, whereas there are only a handful of chipsets that are
used for PCI cards. Some OS such as Linux are gaining more and more
support for these kinds of boards, though it would be nice if *BSD had the
same level of support.
-Toth
At 10:24 PM 7/22/03 -0400, you wrote:
Yes, but the ISA token ring cards aren't as well supported as the PCI
ones. Nosiree. Any PC, any RS/6000, really, any
machine with PCI can do
token ring.
Token ring didn't require PCI bus, I have some ISA Token ring cards
around here somewhere
5:21 p.m.
On Wed, 23 Jul 2003, Tothwolf wrote:
Yes, but the ISA token ring cards aren't as well supported as the PCI
ones.
Of course the real reason for that is that many, many more chipsets were
used for ISA cards, whereas there are only a handful of chipsets that
are used for PCI cards. Some OS such as Linux are gaining more and more
support for these kinds of boards, though it would be nice if *BSD had
the same level of support.
There's a significant level of support in BSD for TP, because it came from
IBM AOS.
Peace... Sridhar
Nosiree. Any
PC, any RS/6000, really, any machine with PCI can do
token ring.
Token ring didn't require PCI bus, I have some ISA Token ring cards
around here somewhere
4:53 p.m.
On Tue, 22 Jul 2003, Geoff Reed wrote:
At 10:24 PM 7/22/03 -0400, you wrote:
And it isn't limited just to PCs. I've seen NuBus Token Ring cards at a
university I did work for, and of course there are HP JetDirect cards that
support Token Ring.
Madge still makes ISA/PCI/PCMCIA Token Ring cards, and 3Com and IBM both
made (and may still sell) several different models of ISA and PCI cards.
There were also many other smaller companies who made ISA cards, but I
haven't seen too many "generic" PCI cards.
On the subject of unusual networks...has anyone come across any fiber
based Arcnet devices? I have a pair of SMC fiber Arcnet cards that came
Nosiree. Any PC, any RS/6000, really, any
machine with PCI can do
token ring.
Token ring didn't require PCI bus, I have some ISA Token ring cards
around here somewhere from a fellow list member, but it appears they need a
concentrator and/or
converters to be used. Some of the building automation system
computers I
tinker with use Arcnet to communicate with each other, and it should be
possible to get them to play nice over fiber if I can scrounge up all of
the components.
-Toth
7:05 p.m.
And microchannel; don't forget microchannel. The original "plug and play"
(except _it_ worked...)
On Tue, 22 Jul 2003, Geoff Reed wrote:
At 10:24 PM 7/22/03 -0400, you wrote:
Nosiree. Any PC, any RS/6000, really, any machine
with PCI can do token
ring.
Token ring didn't require PCI bus, I have some ISA Token ring cards around
here somewhere
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