Token ring was a very elegant way of sharing bandwidth on a LAN, ... What killed it was LAN switching because all that matters there is price per port. Ethernet was simpler and supported by more vendors, so it was cheaper to build Ethernet chip sets.
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This quote is just one of 6 total David Passmore quotes in our collection. David Passmore is known for saying 'Token ring was a very elegant way of sharing bandwidth on a LAN, ... What killed it was LAN switching because all that matters there is price per port. Ethernet was simpler and supported by more vendors, so it was cheaper to build Ethernet chip sets.' as well as some of the following quotes.
OS/2 was a superior product that was clearly well ahead of Windows in functionality, management, single logon and drivers, at least through Windows 2.X.
Microsoft and Netscape gobbled up market share from all the small independent e-mail firms with nice technology and features. By bundling e-mail into their software, they shut down the marketplace. Look at Qmail. Look at Eudora.
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This quote is just one of 6 total David Passmore quotes in our collection. David Passmore is known for saying 'Token ring was a very elegant way of sharing bandwidth on a LAN, ... What killed it was LAN switching because all that matters there is price per port. Ethernet was simpler and supported by more vendors, so it was cheaper to build Ethernet chip sets.' as well as some of the following quotes.