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to: Chris MacKenzie
from: Hamish Moffatt
date: 1996-10-15 20:37:00
subject: NE2000

Hello Chris!

Wednesday October 09 1996 18:25, Chris MacKenzie wrote to Phillip Price:

 > That's crazy. the NE2000 was a 16BIT card (isa bus), WHY pay $70 for old
 > technology like the NE2000's in a PCI bus when you could spend $80 and get
 > good quality DE203/4/5 (Digital Equipment) Etherworks3 Turbo cards ?

 > The EWRK3 cards (ISA bus!) has better transfer rates than the NE2000-PCI
 > cards AND they were made this century ! *8-)

How are you measuring this transfer rate? I've compared an ISA SMC 8013 to an
NE2000; the SMC is supposedly better, but damned if I can see a difference.


Regards,
Hamish

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