Comment on Let's all meet up in the Y2KparentComments−librasteve1moyeah, Madge was a (UK based) 2nd source of IBM Token Ring kit … MAUs, CAUs and so on iircmuch better determinism than Ethernet CSMA/CD−zabzonk1mobut also much slower - people tended to be interested in speed (and the price of the hardware) not determinism−librasteve1moyeah, then NatSemi integrated Ethernet onto a single chip and game over TR
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yeah, Madge was a (UK based) 2nd source of IBM Token Ring kit … MAUs, CAUs and so on iirc
much better determinism than Ethernet CSMA/CD
but also much slower - people tended to be interested in speed (and the price of the hardware) not determinism
yeah, then NatSemi integrated Ethernet onto a single chip and game over TR