A computer local area network arbitration scheme in which
conflicts in the transmission of messages are avoided by the
granting of "tokens" which give permission to send. A station
keeps the token while transmitting a message, if it has a
message to transmit, and then passes it on to the next
station.
Often, "Token Ring" is used to refer to the IEEE 802.5 token
ring standard, which is the most common type of token ring.
Usenet newsgroup: comp.dcom.lans.token-ring.
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