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Linux used to have ARCnet drivers.


It used to have drivers for https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fiber_Distributed_Data_Interfa... too, which is another token passing network. Or at least I had drivers for Linux for them. Can't remember exactly anymore, worked for a while in government institions which used nothing else for networking. FDDI I mean, not Linux, that was an experimental exception. Which was funny, because hey, government, modern equipment? Nope... TERMINALS! Which were plugged into the ring via matchbox-like media-converters going from 100Mbit/s down to 19.200bit/s whith weird parity and stop bits. At least they didn't need a separate PSU(wall wart) because the full DB25 of the RS-232 powered them somehow.




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