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- From: dlyons@Apple.COM (David A Lyons)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
- Subject: Re: Status of Apple IIGS Ethernet Card?
- Message-ID: <74146@apple.apple.COM>
- Date: 10 Nov 92 08:11:00 GMT
- References: <1992Nov6.063357.21006@leland.Stanford.EDU> <mday-061192144157@daybreak.apple.com> <1dfecfINNeen@charnel.ecst.csuchico.edu>
- Organization: Apple Computer Inc., Cupertino, CA
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- In article <1dfecfINNeen@charnel.ecst.csuchico.edu> jamesb@ecst.csuchico.edu (James L. Brookes) writes:
- >[...]
- >Honestly though, I don't see how the Ethertalk card could be that complex.
- >I'm not trying to dog you, I can understand if you have limited time to devote
- >to such a product. I just don't see it as being "more complex than a IIe".
-
- Maybe this will help justify Mark's statement:
-
- * The Ethernet card has a 65816 (the IIe has a 65C02).
-
- * The card has 128K of ROM (well, there's plenty of breathing room,
- plus several similar copies of the part of the firmware that runs
- on the host computer's processor, but still way more than the 16K
- of ROM that a IIe has).
-
- * The card spends its life coordinating asynchronous tasks; a IIe
- does its own thing and doesn't have to synchronize with anything.
-
- BTW, someone asserted that the card handles "a couple of the lower level
- AppleTalk protocols." More than that--it does all the protocols that the
- IIgs does.
-
-