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From: richard@gryphon.CTS.COM (Richard Sexton)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: MIDI/GAMES/etc (was Re: Serial)
Message-ID: <2640@gryphon.CTS.COM>
Date: 19 Feb 88 04:35:30 GMT
References: <2287@crash.cts.com> <945@polyslo.UUCP> <332@splut.UUCP> <318@stag.UUCP> <1452@sugar.UUCP> <343@stag.UUCP>
Reply-To: richard@gryphon.CTS.COM (Richard Sexton)
Organization: Trailing Edge Technology, Redondo Beach, CA
Lines: 29
Keywords: Serial, null modem, rs-232
Summary: nothing to do with amigas... or ataris

In article <343@stag.UUCP> trb@stag.UUCP ( Todd Burkey ) writes:
>In article <1452@sugar.UUCP> karl@sugar.UUCP (Karl Lehenbauer) writes:
>
>>On commercial 
>>token ring implementations, such as Apollo's, there is a relay on each 
>>workstation's network board that causes the machine to be electrically 
>>disconnected from the net when the machine is down or when it's up but 
>>the network software isn't running.  (Granted, there are pathological
>>conditions that can still break a net)
>
>We have around 300 Apollo's on two rings at work...it is really easy
>to break a net :-(. Remember also that that relay wasn't always on the
>Apollo boards. We got along fine during the early Apollo workstation
>years without such a switch.  Then networks got so large we started demanding
>such a beast.

300 ?   Gak, we had 15 and once a week we'd go crawling around the building
trying to find the break.

Boy I'm glad I use Z-boxes now...

right



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