Vax 6320 on Ebay

William Donzelli aw288 at osfn.org
Fri Aug 19 16:20:33 CDT 2005


> Having spent several years in the FDDI ANSI committee, I know all the
> "why FDDI is better" FUD.  It doesn't hold water.  And it certainly
> doesn't justify the absolutely mindboggling complexity of FDDI
> compared to Ethernet.

For what it is worth, we (ANS) found FDDI to be really rather more
bulletproof than Ethernet, even when we moved major POPs from live FDDI
rings to FDDI stars.

Smooth as silk, actually.

William Donzelli
aw288 at osfn.org



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