Query about other technologies

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2 total messages Started by Duncan Gibson Wed, 11 Dec 1985 11:28

#73

Author: Duncan Gibson
Date: Wed, 11 Dec 1985 11:28

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I've been reading this newsgroup for a while now, and I have noticed
that most of the articles relate to Ethernet. I would be interested to
what other technolgies are in use, especially in the States.

I have just completed some work relating to the Cambridge Ring, which is
a slotted ring system. I know that some sites within the UK have done a
lot of work with the Cambridge Ring (such as ukc and cheviot) Is there
interest in this sort of thing in the rest of the world?

Please email, and I will summarise if there is enough interest!
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Re: Query about other technologies

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Author: Duncan Gibson
Date: Wed, 15 Jan 1986 16:41

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When I posted the original query about non-ethernet lan technologies,
I expected that a great many people would be prepared to share their
wealth of experience in other areas, but it appears not.

I would like to thank the people who made the effort to reply. [The
addresses were a mixture of UUCP and JANET due to different mailers,
I hope that the routes I have given from a major site will work!]

From ..mcvax!ukc!reading!paul
>
> We use the Cambridge Ring as the main network within the Computer
> Science Department here at Reading University (UK). We have carried
> out some development on the 38 bit ring relating to host front-ending
> and high performance interfacing. My thesis was concerned with the
> performance of the ring both at the hardware level and at the higher
> protocol layers.

From ..mcvax!ukc!reading!minster!forsyth
> 
> I'm interested in non-Ethernet systems, although we will end up
> running Ethernet because it is quite difficult to get Ring kit
> for American machines.  I'd prefer to have a Cambridge or token ring,

From ..seismo!rick
> 
> We use PRONET, made by Proteon Associates in Natick, MA.
> 
> It's a star shaped, token passing ring. It works fine at 10Mbps and
> doesn't suffer from collisions like an ethernet. They have recently
> come out with an 80Mbps version.

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