> But Ethernet worked around that problem pretty quickly with switches. I'm sure Token Ring would have solved it the same way. Perhaps, but "the problem" was

> But Ethernet worked around that problem pretty quickly with switches. I'm sure Token Ring would have solved it the same way. Perhaps, but "the problem" was shared access to a single piece of wire. Switches solved the problem by ending sharing - each piece of wire had exactly one computer. So sure, a switch would have fixed Token Ring's lost token problem - by eliminating the token. I'm not sure it could be called "Token Ring" at that point as there is no token, and no ring.