WTB: a small quantity of Sbus 10baseT ethernet cards (Sydney, .a

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From: Tim Jones
Date: Fri, 31 Jul 1998 00:00

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Hello Matt!

Replying to a message of Matt Kirsch to All:

 MK> From: Matt Kirsch <kirschm@wycol.com>

 MK> Craig Dewick wrote: 
 >> I'd like to track down a small quantity (say 5 or so) of Sbus 10baseT
 >> (preferably buffered) ethernet cards to drop into my systems and
 MK> improve the
 >> ethernet performance of my machines.

 MK> If it's an SBus-based SPARC, it's already got a 10Mbps Ethernet port
 MK> on it. Some of the earlier models require a transciever ($25 max),
 MK> but they can all be attached to a 10BaseT ethernet easily, and the
 MK> performance is just as good as any SBus ethernet adapter you could
 MK> install.

 MK> How do you think adding an SBus ethernet card will "improve ethernet
 MK> performance"? You might have the wrong idea about an ethernet.

Some older systems had unbuffered onboard ethernets which caused more
cpu overhead. Adding an sbus ethernet board gave you a buffered port which
taxed the cpu less.

Later, 
 Tim!
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Subject: WTB: a small quantity of Sbus 10baseT ethernet cards (Sydney, .a
Date: 1998/07/31
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