Perry wrote:
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Another reason to have an Ethernet card in an Apple II would be to hook it
up to your local area network (whether it be PC's, Mac's, UNIX boxen,
etc.) for presumably easier file transfer/information sharing). It would
be much faster than connection to the LAN via the LocalTalk port(s) built
into the IIgs....and the IIe doesn't have any networking options built
into it at all.
I hear this assumption a lot, and am wondering what data rates
are actually achievable with a LanceGS and a //e--particularly
an unaccellerated //e.
Unless the card uses DMA on a //e, it would be suprising if it
could sustain bandwidths better than 20-25 kilobytes per second,
or, in bits per second 160-200 kbps.
If this is so, then the card would not be that much better than
a workstation card in terms of throughput.
I realize that many people want this just for connectivity, not
performance, but I can't help wondering what the actual network
performance might be, even with protocol factored out.
-michael