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From: drg@rlvd.UUCP (Duncan Gibson)
Newsgroups: net.lan
Subject: Re: Query about other technologies
Message-ID: <1016@rlvd.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 15-Jan-86 11:41:55 EST
Article-I.D.: rlvd.1016
Posted: Wed Jan 15 11:41:55 1986
Date-Received: Fri, 24-Jan-86 08:34:25 EST
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Reply-To: drg@rlvd.UUCP (Duncan Gibson)
Organization: Software Engineering Group, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory
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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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