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Ah yes, back when caring about hardware was a thing. Early 90s, new top-of-line Compaq arrives, for me, project manager. We open it to install network card - t
by zabzonk 2mo ago
Ah yes, back when caring about hardware was a thing.
Early 90s, new top-of-line Compaq arrives, for me, project manager. We open it to install network card - token ring (yes, it sucked to be you - you could almost see the little tokens slouching round the ring).
me: jesus, just look at that heat-sink!
male programmer: yeah, they really knocked it out with that anodised blue - can i get the next one?
female tech lead: you sad, sad bastards.
- robin_reala 2mo agoA mention of token ring made me look up Madge, but it seems like they, probably unsurprisingly, died in 2003.
- zabzonk 2mo agoNever heard of Madge before. AFAIK, our token ring networking (at a big 6 accountancy) was all supplied by IBM, but I could be wrong. In any case, I despised it for poor speed and reliability.
- librasteve 2mo agoyeah, Madge was a (UK based) 2nd source of IBM Token Ring kit … MAUs, CAUs and so on iirc much better determinism than Ethernet CSMA/CD
- zabzonk 2mo agobut also much slower - people tended to be interested in speed (and the price of the hardware) not determinism
- librasteve 2mo agoyeah, then NatSemi integrated Ethernet onto a single chip and game over TR