and dec used the lance for years after the days of the delqa. everything 
up to the dec3000 alphas use a lance (does the 4000/90 have an sgec or a 
lance?)

On Tue, 22 Oct 2002, Eric Smith wrote:

> Paul Vixie wrote:
> > iirc, the -YM board looked completely different.  fewer chips overall.
> 
> All the "normal" and "turbo" (-YM) boards I've seen look like the same
> board.  But the -YM has a Toshiba gate array in place of the AMD Lance.
> I'm not sure if this is just a cost reduction, and it's a direct
> replacement for the Lance, or if the gate array provides some special
> features needed by the -YM firmware.
> 
> The Lance was a pretty decent Ethernet chip for its day.  I can't think
> of any reason why DEC would have needed to replace it with something
> different other than a simple cost reduction.  Any performance problems
> in the "normal" DELQA are unlikely to be due to the Lance.
> 
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