From: Ron Heiby (heiby_at_falkor.chi.il.us)
Date: Mon May 03 1999 - 22:36:19 EDT
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At 08:08 PM 5/3/99 -0400, Lee Hetherington wrote:
>Jane Loyless wrote:
>
>> Maybe because there are still a number of large corporate customers out
>> there like me whose shops are still heavily Token Ring and who point that
>> out to the manufacturers every time the issue comes up.
>
>That hasn't stop desktop manufacturers (e.g., Dell) from building in
>ethernet.
Of course, it wasn't Dell that ignored a pretty decent existing networking
system (Ethernet) and forced a completely new and incompatible system (Token
Ring) down all of their major customer's throats. (Note: I'm not saying that
T.R. isn't a nice network.)
Just a thought...
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-- Ron.
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