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Klaus Burkert wrote in comp.sys.amiga.networking about "Re: New ethernet
card?":
> What you're talking about is Fast-Ethernet which is not that widespread

Much worse, there is AFAIK still no official standard for Fast Ethernet.
So if one of the Amiga boards would support Fast Ethernet there still
weren't a guarantee that you can network it with another system supporting
Fast Ethernet.

> and the number of Amigas connected to such a net is that small, that you'd
> sell perhaps 50 boards/year which does not make up for manufacturing and
> developing at all.

Agreed.

> When you equip both machines with WarpEngine40/40s, this goes up to well
> above 600KB/s.

Indeed. An A4000/040 is already faster than a A3000/25 at least when using
an A2065 or an Ariadne.

> So what would be the point in having 100MBit/s networking on the
> hardware level when the software limits it to below 1 MB/s?

The advantage would be that you can get good transfer rates even if the are
many hosts connected to that network causing a lot of network traffic.

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Matthias Scheler
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