25 Jan
2021
25 Jan
'21
12:50 a.m.
On 1/24/21, Larry McVoy <lm(a)mcvoy.com> wrote:
On Sun, Jan 24, 2021 at 01:14:34PM -0800, Jon
Steinhart wrote:
Until you got over 10% utilization or so, then token-ring would blow
the doors off anything else. At least that was our benchmarking
results.
So I never liked Apollos much. What I was
referring to was Apollo's
claim
that their token-ring network performed better for large numbers of
nodes.
And they were correct. However, they didn't consider the eventually
invention of switches that solved the problem.
The network performance of the cluster of Apollos we had was awful.
I don't know anything about how you set that up, never liked token rings,
maybe it is possible to set it up wrong, I dunno. All I know was network
performance was awful on the Apollos.