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From: brian@anorak.coverform.lan (Brian Somers)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Minimum machine for nameservice?
Date: 22 Oct 1996 11:07:40 +0100
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In article <54970g$c8@uriah.heep.sax.de>,
j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) writes:
: I would prefer an SMC8013 over the NE2000, if you've got that choice.
: The NE2000 is really sloooow (it doesn't provide shared memory).
Interrestingly enough, the best throughput of any 10Mb ISA NICs I've
had was through a Trust NE2000 clone - 800k/second sustained via ftp.
The machine wasn't doing anything else though - so I guess I didn't
care that the CPU was doing everything.
--
Brian <brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk>
<http://www.awfulhak.demon.co.uk/>
Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour....
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