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- From: rh0083b@medtronic.COM (Roger-Hunen)
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- Subject: Re: Sun <=> PC Transfer Rate (Summary)
- Message-ID: <1992Sep15.065528.3162@medtron.medtronic.com>
- Date: 15 Sep 92 06:55:28 GMT
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- In article <karl.23.716089551@empirical.com> karl@empirical.com (Karl Auerbach) writes:
- >>Two SPARCstation 2's are apparently capable of data rates of 800 to 1000
- >>kilobytes per second memory-to-memory transfer on a dedicated Ethernet.
- >
- >Sun's can do *much* better than that.
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- No they cannot. 1000 kByte/s = 8 Mbit/s, which already comes close to the
- 10 Mbit/s of the Ethernet...
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- Regards,
- -Roger
- (I speak for myself)
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