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In article <1992Nov20.205654.23381@ucsu.Colorado.EDU>, barr@tramp.Colorado.EDU (BARR DOUG) writes:
> Can you connect Macintoshes to Token ring? Suns? Nexts? Silcon Graphics?
> RS6000's? Vaxen? Decstation 5000's ...? 

As time passes, all workstation vendors are coming out with token ring
interfaces.  Except for VAX's and perhaps Next and MAC's, I think all
of those in that list have token ring interfaces.

If the point is that ethernet interfaces are "native" to all of those
and "token ring" interfaces are second class, then it is valid.


> If Appletalk running over ethernet is ethertalk, is Appletalk runing over
> Token Ring Tokentalk?
> On a more serious note:
> I just tested an ethernet card with 10BaseT and 10Base2 ports, cost $79.00! 

Someone else has pointed to 10BaseT hubs at $60/port.

I think the cost of the silicon to build a good token ring interface is
a good fraction of $140.  That is cost to the manufacturer, not price
to the consumer.

Token Ring will be as dead as TP4 and DECNET Phase IV in another year
or two.  There will be people running Token Ring networks for decades,
just as there are still people using bisync after all these decades.
There will be people installing new TP4 and DECNET Phase IV
applications and Token Ring networks 5 years from now.  That
workstation vendors are designing new token ring hardware indicates no
more than the fact that many computer vendors continue to support
DECNET Phase IV and TP4.  That only shows that big enough corpses can
be revered by the bereaved and profitable to the morticians long after
they start smelling bad.


Does anyone think arcnet is healthy?


Vernon Schryver,  vjs@sgi.com