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From: rpbert@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Raymond Pierrehumbert)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: NCSA Telnet release announcement
Summary: If SCSI speed is the limiting factor in Mac II ftp,
	 what's the point of the souped up Dove ethernet card?
Message-ID: <9602@phoenix.Princeton.EDU>
Date: 26 Jul 89 01:39:40 GMT
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Many responses I received on my query about Mac ftp speeds focussed
on the SCSI disk as the limiting factor (as well as timeslice
factors under MF).  If this is the case, and the ethernet hardware
is not close to being limiting, what is the point of the new
Dove smart ethernet card with its 68000 service processor and 512K
buffer?  Will this somehow circumvent the SCSI bottleneck?
Does anybody have experience with this hardware?