Re: Ethernet vs LocalTalk

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From: Peter Desnoyers
Date: Tue, 02 May 1989 16:59

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[DISCLAIMER - I am not voicing Apple policy, and any comments about
Apple products or deficiencies therein should not be construed as
statements to the effect that Apple is, or is not, working on these
deficiencies.]

In article <278@suna.CMI.COM> dave@suna.cmi.com.UUCP (David Halonen) writes:
>
>Its my feeling that the CPU speeds must be increased in order for the
>advantages of Ethernet to be realized.  Comments, anyone?

Van Jacobson at Lawrence Berkeley Labs has gotten ~9Mbit performance
from an experimental version of TCP/IP (with full checksumming) on Sun
3/50s and 3/60s.  (about MacII speed processors) With enough
optimization AppleTalk should be able to do this, as well.  

				Peter Desnoyers

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From: desnoyer@Apple.COM (Peter Desnoyers)
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Subject: Re: Ethernet vs LocalTalk
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Date: 2 May 89 16:59:08 GMT
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