[GTALUG] I’m obviously way behind in my reading: IBM owns Redhat

[Russell Reiter]

On Wed, May 27, 2020, 10:54 AM James Knott via talk, <talk at gtalug.org>
wrote:

> On 2020-05-27 10:44 AM, Russell Reiter wrote:
> > Or perhaps IBM token ring didn't like Linux TCP/IP, but now they do.
> >
>
> Isn't Token Ring pretty much dead now?  Back in the 90s it provided
> better performance than Ethernet, as there were no collisions and there
> was also the move to 16 Mb TR.  But when switches and then 100 Mb
> Ethernet became popular, Token Ring was left in the dust.
>

I believe it's used in bidirectional fiber-optic communications. To what
extent, I'm not sure and to be honest I just looked that up.

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