Date   : Fri, 16 Nov 1990 18:05:05 GMT
From   : van-bc!ubc-cs!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!utgpu!watserv1!sunee!erick@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU (Erick Engelke)
Subject: Early microcomputer networks

In article <2742B8F0.6ED4@marob.masa.com> cowan@marob.masa.com (John Cowan)
writes:
       etrmg@levels.sait.edu.au (What a Guy!) writes:
>>there was another net (by Proteon?) called 10-net ???  I was impressed
by that.
>>What has happened to it?  I could seal off sections of the net and if 
>>connections where completely broken, you'd have two separately operating
systems
>>Sounded great, but was $$$. . .
>
>Proteon 10-Net is an 802.5-style token ring, essentially like IBM Token Ring
>but at 10 Mbits/sec rather than 4 or 16.
>-- 

Proteon proNET 10 is still a popular networking product.  It's simple to 
program, has low overhead, and performs faster than 16Mbit IBM Token Ring
due to the low amount of overhead.  Banyan Vines, Novell and a bunch of other
network operating systems all support it.  So do quite a few large university
networks Watstar (ours is 450 nodes), TCP/IP stuff at Purdue and MIT, and
the Free University of Holland (Taunenbaum's home).

ProNET 10 is cheaper than IBM Token Ring, and pretty similar to good Ethernet
cards.

Erick Engelke
Systems Manager
University of Waterloo