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- From: claevius@firefly.prairienet.org (Brent Busby)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.networking
- Subject: Re: New ethernet card?
- Date: 19 Mar 1996 02:11:31 GMT
- Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
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- Job Hanssen (hanssen@bart.nl) wrote:
- : Ian Moor wrote:
- : >
- : > In article <4hdjca$gql@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu> djhoward@students.uiuc.edu (howard daniel joseph) writes:
- : > > An ethernet card with serial/parallel ports?
- : > > Are you smoking something or am I missing something?
-
- : > The arieadne (sp) ethernet card has serial ports, as icing on the board,
- : > not used for the ethernet! But I already have a serial board,
- : > I'd rather have a cheaper eithernet.
- : > --
- : > Ian Moor
- : > i.moor@doc.ic.ac.uk
-
- : If I'm not mistaken, those ports on the Ariadne are both parallel.
- : To be precise it has: 1 10base2
- : 1 10baseT
- : 1 parallel extern
- : 1 parallel intern
-
- : Job Hanssen - hanssen@bart.nl
-
- Hmm. Besides the now sadly defunct CyberStorm I/O daughterboard, know of
- any Amiga ethernet cards that *do* have ethernet and serial ports on the
- same board? That would be quite a useful combination. (I mean, there's
- only so many printers a guy can use, you know? Unless these parallel
- ports on the Adriane are the kind of fully implemented high speed kind
- that can be used with a parallel interface modem like the ZyXEL Elite,
- that is.....)
-
- Another related question: Know of any Zorro-III ethernet cards? If I
- remember correctly, both the Adriane and Commodore's A2065 (I think that's
- the model number of CBM's own ethernet card, anyway...<?>) are Zorro-II
- 16-bit cards, which would give them a bus bandwidth of about two and a half
- meg per second. Typical ethernet connectivity will give you about nine or
- ten meg per second, which is pretty close to what the bandwidth of the
- A3000/4000's Zorro-III 32-bit bus is. So why are all the ethernet cards
- out there Zorro-II? It would make them more usable for A2000 users of
- course, and I do like the 2000 and everything of course, and I'm not
- trying to take their ethernet options away from them <g>, but ...
- wouldn't a Zorro-III board be more in line with the full bandwidth
- that can be expected of an ethernet line? I'm an Amiga-3000 user!
-
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