2014-04-26 14:52:28 +00:00
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broken-ring network
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2014-04-26 15:54:15 +00:00
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Pejorative hackerism for token-ring network , an early and very slow LAN
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technology from IBM that lost the standards war to Ethernet. Though
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token-ring survives in a few niche markets (such as factory automation) that
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put a high premium on resistance to electrical noise, the term is now (2000)
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primarily historical.
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