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From: amanda@intercon.com (Amanda Walker)
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Subject: Re: Ethernet for Mac SE/30?
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Date: 20 Sep 89 20:10:44 GMT
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In article <11861@polya.Stanford.EDU>, morgan@polya.Stanford.EDU (Robert L.
Morgan) writes:
> Asante's claim of register-level compatibility with Apple cards is
> nice feature for their cards, but is much less important than other
> concerns like price, performance, reliability, availability,
> confidence in the company, etc.

For the Mac OS, this is quite true.  However, one thing I've been curious
about is whether or not an Asante board will work with A/UX without having
to buy another driver and relink the kernel.

Aside from that, though, the only benefit I can see of the Asante board
over anything else is that uses a 32-bit data bus to its buffer memory,
instead of the 8-bit wide one that most other boards use, which could
give a minor speed improvement in some applications.  It doesn't seem to
matter much in normal use, though.

--
Amanda Walker
amanda@intercon.com