A mention of token ring made me look up Madge, but it seems like they, probably unsurprisingly, died in 2003.
Never heard of Madge before. AFAIK, our token ring networking (at a big 6 accountancy) was all supplied by IBM, but I could be wrong. In any case, I despised it for poor speed and reliability.
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
but also much slower - people tended to be interested in speed (and the price of the hardware) not determinism
yeah, then NatSemi integrated Ethernet onto a single chip and game over TR
Never heard of Madge before. AFAIK, our token ring networking (at a big 6 accountancy) was all supplied by IBM, but I could be wrong. In any case, I despised it for poor speed and reliability.
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
but also much slower - people tended to be interested in speed (and the price of the hardware) not determinism
yeah, then NatSemi integrated Ethernet onto a single chip and game over TR