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zabzonkyesterday at 12:22 PM1 replyview on HN

Never heard of Madge before. AFAIK, our token ring networking (at a big 6 accountancy) was all supplied by IBM, but I could be wrong. In any case, I despised it for poor speed and reliability.


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librasteveyesterday at 1:12 PM

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

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