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librasteveyesterday at 1:12 PM1 replyview on HN

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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zabzonkyesterday at 2:11 PM

but also much slower - people tended to be interested in speed (and the price of the hardware) not determinism

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