Comments on: What was a Token Ring network? https://dfarq.homeip.net/what-was-a-token-ring-network/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=what-was-a-token-ring-network David L. Farquhar on technology old and new, computer security, and more Sat, 22 Oct 2022 15:40:26 +0000 hourly 1 By: Dave Farquhar https://dfarq.homeip.net/what-was-a-token-ring-network/#comment-56157 Thu, 24 Mar 2022 03:41:38 +0000 https://dfarq.homeip.net/?p=28547#comment-56157 In reply to Shirley Marquez.

Very well put. And IBM had a great deal of success selling to financial institutions. That was one of the few industries where OS/2 did well.

]]> By: Shirley Marquez https://dfarq.homeip.net/what-was-a-token-ring-network/#comment-56156 Wed, 23 Mar 2022 14:27:53 +0000 https://dfarq.homeip.net/?p=28547#comment-56156 One of the design points of Token Ring is that the token passing guaranteed that you can always send a packet within a fixed amount of time. (The amount depends on the number of computers on the network.) Ethernet cannot make that same guarantee because of the collision mechanism. That guaranteed operation was thought to be important for settings such as financial institutions, where the network absolutely positively must work.

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