Re: [Off Topic] An EXCELLENT Microsoft Confidential document on
On Fri, Nov 06, 1998 at 06:48:31AM -0500, John Forest wrote:
> While all this cloak and dagger stuff makes for good entertainment, I believe
> the following link sums up my feeling on this a lot better then I could.
>
> http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/pulpit19981105.html
He makes the point that IBM developed Token Ring to decommodize Ethernet.
That may be true, but Token Ring was a better system than Ethernet. As
MCA is/was better than ISA. Both of these lost out because they required
licensing. Is there any sign that Microsoft's protocols are actually
better than the open equivalents?
Hamish
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