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Job Hanssen (hanssen@bart.nl) wrote:
: Ian Moor wrote:
: > 
: > In article <4hdjca$gql@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu> djhoward@students.uiuc.edu (howard daniel joseph) writes:
: > >       An ethernet card with serial/parallel ports?
: > >       Are you smoking something or am I missing something?

: > The arieadne (sp) ethernet card has serial ports, as icing on the board,
: > not used for the ethernet! But I already have a serial board,
: > I'd rather have a cheaper eithernet.
: > --
: >    Ian Moor
: >    i.moor@doc.ic.ac.uk

: If I'm not mistaken, those ports on the Ariadne are both parallel.
: To be precise it has: 1 10base2
: 			1 10baseT
: 			1 parallel extern
: 			1 parallel intern

: Job Hanssen - hanssen@bart.nl

Hmm.  Besides the now sadly defunct CyberStorm I/O daughterboard, know of
any Amiga ethernet cards that *do* have ethernet and serial ports on the
same board?  That would be quite a useful combination.  (I mean, there's
only so many printers a guy can use, you know?  Unless these parallel
ports on the Adriane are the kind of fully implemented high speed kind
that can be used with a parallel interface modem like the ZyXEL Elite,
that is.....)

Another related question:  Know of any Zorro-III ethernet cards?  If I
remember correctly, both the Adriane and Commodore's A2065 (I think that's
the model number of CBM's own ethernet card, anyway...<?>) are Zorro-II
16-bit cards, which would give them a bus bandwidth of about two and a half
meg per second.  Typical ethernet connectivity will give you about nine or
ten meg per second, which is pretty close to what the bandwidth of the
A3000/4000's Zorro-III 32-bit bus is.  So why are all the ethernet cards
out there Zorro-II?  It would make them more usable for A2000 users of
course, and I do like the 2000 and everything of course, and I'm not
trying to take their ethernet options away from them <g>, but ...
wouldn't a Zorro-III board be more in line with the full bandwidth
that can be expected of an ethernet line?  I'm an Amiga-3000 user!

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