Subject: Re: Applixware for NetBSD
To: Chris Tribo , <port-vax@netbsd.org>
From: Dave McGuire <mcguire@neurotica.com>
List: port-vax
Date: 01/14/2000 05:33:32
On Thu, 13 Jan 2000, Chris Tribo wrote:
>    Hehe, as long as we're on the topic :) I've got a DEC LANbridge 200
>sitting in my closet. I opened it up and noticed that it has both an
>Motorola 68020 @ 20 MHz AND an LSI R3000?! It seems to have quite a bit of
>buffer memory and two 10Base Ethernet interfaces.
>    Could anything useful be done with this? I don't have any software nor
>any documentation for it, and I can't justify the 4 Amps it sucks down for
>the pretty flashing lights :-)

  I'm using about ten of them on various networks that I work on.  It's
basically a two-port ethernet switch.  They work very, very well.  They don't
need software...they run from ROM.  Just plug it in and turn it on.

  And they don't pull anywhere near four amps.

                   -Dave McGuire