Bill Studenmund drunkenly mumbled...
> 
> Jukka Martin noted that a fast computer could swamp a slow CPU/card. True.
> But in this case, I think it's the bus as 1) I got time out errors, not
> overruns, and 2) with the good card I got 200 kB/sec transfer from my mac
> IIsi, and with the "cheep" one at work, I got 450 kB/sec from a Linux box.

with my sparc5 i can swamp my 486 with it's ISA based ethernet card.  of course
i'm not entirely convinced that the ISA card is getting along with the EISA bus.
it just may be a timing problem.

-brian

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