At 3:42 PM -0500 10/11/02, Hauke Fath wrote:
>o Nubus ethernet cards usually come with the NS8390 - there are probably
>faster chips around. The Quadra onboard controller is a newer SMC chip.

The Quadra on-board ethernet is a SONIC chip, which does do DMA, and has
reasonably good performance.

68k macs unfortunatley suffer from a hideously broken interrupt
architecture, which severely limits performance in a lot of areas, which
isn't helped by a general lack of DMA.

That said, it should generally do the job fairly well.


Cheers - Tony 'Nicoya' Mantler :)


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