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- From: ebrown@bud_light.kodak.com (Eric Brown)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
- Subject: Which network card?
- Message-ID: <EBROWN.92Aug20140559@bud_light.kodak.com>
- Date: 20 Aug 92 18:05:59 GMT
- Article-I.D.: bud_ligh.EBROWN.92Aug20140559
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- Organization: Eastman Kodak Company
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- I'm trying to buy a TCP/IP thin (BNC Coax) eternet card. For NT purposes,
- I must choose between:
- Etherlink II (8 bit) $179
- Etherlink II / 16 (16 bit) $279
- SMC/West.Dig. WD8013 (16 bit) $179
- SMC/West.Dig. WD8003 (? bits) $???
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- Why is the Etherlink II/16 so much more then the WD8013?
- Isn't 8-bit fast enough?
- [I thought an 8-bit bus @ 5 MHz = 8bits * 2.5MHz = 2.5MBytes per second
- while ethernet is only 10MBits/second = 1.1MBytes/second. Shouldn't 8
- bits be fast enough?]
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- Thanks in advance,
- Eric Brown.
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