mo@PRISMA.COM (08/28/89)
Better than collisions, token rings routinely convoy, causing hosts A and C to get all the bandwidth between them they want while hosts B and D starve. Nature abhors synchrony - randomizing is good for you!!! -Mike
dcrocker@AHWAHNEE.STANFORD.EDU (Dave Crocker) (08/28/89)
Mike, Token ring technology does not necessarily permit two hosts to dominate. The Irvine ring essentially guaranteed a round-robin allocation of bandwidth, since each station could piggyback its packet on the end of a chain. Dave