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Subject: Re: Reliability of TCP/IP
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Date: 1 Sep 89 15:55:12 GMT
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From article <3582@asylum.SF.CA.US>, by karl@asylum.SF.CA.US (Karl Auerbach):
> This brings to mind another bit of mis-information:  Seems that down
> in Los Angeles some IBM-oriented MIS group was saying, in a knowing
> authoritative voice, that Ethernet should not be used to carry
> financial information because it has collisions and drops digits.  And
> since token rings don't have collisions, they don't lose digits and
> are thus much better for moving critical data!

Gosh!  You mean... that *isn't true*?!?