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- From: richb@jti.com (Richard Braun)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
- Subject: Re: Need 3c501 driver
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- Date: 12 Jan 93 19:34:11 GMT
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- nelson@crynwr.com (Russell Nelson) writes:
- >I'm sorry you feel that way. There is no way to write a 3c501 driver
- >with performance proportional to the speed of a 386. What you are
- >trying to do is the equivalent to running Linux of a 80ms 20Mb MFM
- >drive. Most people would probably think that unreasonable...
-
- My $0.02: yeah, that's probably a good way of looking at it, in this
- modern era of $79 10BaseT Ethernet boards. We agree.
-
- When I started at my new company, I found a big installed base of
- two obsolete Ethernet boards: 3c501s and Intel PC586s. They work
- well enough that it's real hard to convince the paper-pushers that
- we ought to replace all of them. Even at $79, 35 of them amounts to
- an amount they'd rather spend on something else.
-
- My guess is there's still an awful lot of 3c501s out there. And you
- could indeed run many applications under Linux on an old 20Mb disk
- drive. (That's part of the beauty of Linux: it sucks up a lot less
- resources than any post-Xenix flavor of 386 Unix I've seen.) If there's
- enough demand, a 3c501 driver for Linux will eventually appear.
-
- -rich
-