Ethernet beat Token Ring.

[evan@cosocial.ca]

Ethernet beat Token Ring.

[grahamdowns@mastodon.africa]

@evan Weirdly, WiFi, as I understand it, behaves rather similarly to Token Ring, does it not?

And for most casual users, it's currently beating Ethernet (for my money, I'll still always prefer a cable connection than WiFi, wherever possible).

[brunogirin@mastodon.me.uk]

@evan
Ah the joys of debugging a ring by isolating each MAU one by one to find which one is faulty and brings the whole ring down!

[evan@cosocial.ca]

@GrahamDowns Ethernet beat Token Ring.

[bd808@mastodon.social]

@evan VHS beat Betamax

[evan@cosocial.ca]

@bd808 Blueray beat HD-DVD.

[bd808@mastodon.social]

@evan DOS beat CP/M.

[brooke@bikeshed.vibber.net]

@bd808 @evan Windows NT beat OS/2

[brooke@bikeshed.vibber.net]

@evan

ethernet man,
ethernet man,
does everything that a network can
usually kind to wifi man
lives all his life where the cables ran,
ethernet man

token ring man,
token ring man,
don't you forget to terminate, man
they have a fight
ethernet wins
ethernet man!

[ericcarroll@cosocial.ca]

@evan
And FDDI.
And SONET
And ATM
And ...