broken-ring network

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broken-ring network

Pejorative hackerism for "token-ring network", an early LAN technology from IBM that lost the standards war to Ethernet. Though token-ring survives in a few niche markets (such as factory automation) that put a high premium on resistance to electrical noise, the term is now (2000) primarily historical.

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