Re: LANceGS Ethernet Card: First Look

[Hector H. Eckler <h_eckler@my-deja.com>]

I wrote:
in message <8n9b53$8jg$1@nnrp1.deja.com>...
>>>Finally after 3+ years of development and at least 3 major
>>>revisions, Joachim successfully comes out with a card.

Then John Oliver rips into Joachim by replying:

>HAHA. What did he have to do, go to college to get an engineering
>degree first?
>Yes, we can get it done as soon as the prototype have shown that there
>are no grievous errors, you shitlick. We'll certainly miss out on all
>those tiny little optimizations, and the card won't be nearly as fast
>as even a medicore isa nic, I'd imagine. WTF do you expect? This isn't
>meant to be a 'business'. Get over it.

And now John Oliver writes:
> To be perfectly honest, I don't have the capabilities. When I
> first brought the ssubject up, over a month ago, there were plenty
> of people who pointed out how awful the card I outlined, would
> perform, if at all. But rather than be assholes, they simply
> said, 'why don't you put this on there' and things of that sort.
> It became apparent that I can't do those things, not yet,
> maybe not ever.

Now lets just ask ourselves the question: do we really want to invest
$50 in what this guy is peddling?

Sincerely,
Hector H. Eckler


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