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