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  1. Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.networking
  2. Message-ID: <36884115@arkon.dontpanic.sub.org>
  3. From: crest@arkon.dontpanic.sub.org (Klaus Burkert)
  4. Path: nordwest.pop.de!cosmos-l.gun.de
  5. Subject: Re: New ethernet card?
  6. Date: Sun, 24 Mar 1996 23:21:45 +0100
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  8. References: <39963@lyssa.owl.de>
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  14. In article <39963@lyssa.owl.de> <tron@lyssa.owl.de> wrote:
  15. > > So what would be the point in having 100MBit/s networking on the
  16. > > hardware level when the software limits it to below 1 MB/s?
  17. > The advantage would be that you can get good transfer rates even if the are
  18. > many hosts connected to that network causing a lot of network traffic.
  19.  
  20. Agreed. But I think the totl number of potential buyers would be
  21. abyssly small too. So no commercial point.
  22.  
  23. Ciao, Klaus.
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