Re: Token Ring in the early '90s?
Not really, there were still many large companies in the early 90s using token ring.
Thin Ethernet was being used widely in SMEs at least and were transitioning to normal ethernet. Even then if was often using hubs and repeaters. Therefore, as these only had a very limited scalability unless you started creating departmental networks and routers, then token ring was seem as a scalable platform when you had above x number of users.
It was the advent of affordable switches with decent backplanes that that saw the ability to run larger multilevel star networks that we get today. This however wasn't a thing in the 80s.
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