On Thu, 19 Jul 2001, Joerg Micheel wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 19, 2001 at 02:35:51AM -0500, David Scheidt wrote:
> > On Thu, 19 Jul 2001, Julian Elischer wrote:
> >
> > :Max Khon wrote:
> > :>
> > :> hi, there!
> > :
> > :what is arcnet?
> > :
> >
> > It's a token-based LAN protocol. It's used in some embedded applications,
> > as its controllers are cheap, it's pretty low-overhead, and has
> > deterministic behavior (you can calculate the worst case time to send a
> > message to another station). Industrial controlers and data acquistion are
> > the two uses that jump out of my memory.
>
> David, Julian was kidding you. Read his response again.
I'm flattered that you think I was kidding..
actually I had no clue what Arcnet was :-)
>
> Joerg
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