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[Christopher Biggs]

(Note reply-to: being general at humbug.org.au vs Christopher Biggs <chris at stallion.oz.au>)

Craig Armour <c.armour at kings.uq.edu.au> moved upon the face of the 'Net and spake thusly:
> 
> I've never had problems... they just suck.  Have you ever done a
> throughput comparison between an NE2000 clone and an smc or a 3c509 ?? 
> no contest.  I get better performance under windows with NE2000 clones
> than I do under linux.  
> 

NE2000 adaptors use port I/O to move data, 8013 (WD and SMC) adaptors
use shared memory.   There is a considerable perfomance advantage to
the latter.

cjb.

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