Retro networking / WAN communities

[Wayne S]

There is some mention of Token Ring vs Ethernet here. IIRC, One issue that was pointed out was that IBM was the only single source for TR chips so the price of token ring could be kept artificially high. Was there ever a second or third source for token ring chips?

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> On Apr 12, 2022, at 14:11, Grant Taylor via cctalk <cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote:
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> On 4/12/22 3:03 PM, Chuck Guzis via cctalk wrote:
>> I'll bow to the experts and refer to the things as a "boxes with <fill in the blank>n capabilities".
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> I'm definitely not an expert.  Just some random <REDACTED descriptive term> on the Internet who has things to say.  ;-)
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>> That should pretty much cover the terrain.
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> As some random <REDACTED descriptive term> on the Internet who has things to say I actually value "boxes with <fill in the blank>n capabilities" as it lets me know if I should treat the <fill in the blank> as a specific thing or a generic class description.  E.g. Hoover brand vs Eureka hoover device.  ;-)
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