[ih] Internet History - from Community to Big Tech?

[Dave Crocker]

On 3/31/2019 3:23 PM, Scott O. Bradner wrote:
> might have been crap but there sure was a lot of it, and it worked well enough to dominate the LAN space over
> token ring


When I first learned that the Irvine Ring had 1/4 of its real-estate 
devoted to a contention-based token-creation mechanism, I was pretty 
sure a contention system was going to win this particular technology 
debate.  It was simply simpler.  Pretty much no application required the 
predictability of access that a token system was theoretically capable 
of ensuring.

BTW, its benefits notwithstanding, thin ether was fragile and a netops 
pain.

d/

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Dave Crocker
Brandenburg InternetWorking
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