Re: LANceGS ethernet card

["GarberStreet" <willy46pa@comcast.net>]

"Scott Alfter" <salfter@salfter.diespammersdie.dyndns.org> wrote in message
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: In article <q8WdnfSsbYpgqmHcRVn-rQ@comcast.com>,
: GarberStreet <willy46pa@comcast.net> wrote:
: >What are the specifications?
: >The LANceGS card is a 10baseT ethernet card with up to 10Mbit/sec
: >throughput. It uses a standard RJ45 jack to connect to your network.
:
: 10 Mb/s is more than you can push over the Apple II expansion bus  1 MB/s=
: 8 Mb/s, and that's assuming you can do DMA transfers with one byte per
clock
: cycle (the Apple DMA SCSI card does this only in the IIGS; in the IIe, it
: falls back to one byte every other cycle).  Add in protocol overhead and
the
: speed drops even further.

If you read the above again, it says "UP TO" 10Mb/sec.

: Still, it ought to at least be faster than the ~230 kb/s that LocalTalk
: delivers (whether through the built-in ports on a IIGS or a Workstation
Card
: in a IIe).

Anything is faster than what we have now.   :o)

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