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From: zwicky@sparkyfs.istc.sri.com (Elizabeth Zwicky)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.appletalk
Subject: Re: Ethertalk errors on busy networks
Message-ID: <30908@sparkyfs.istc.sri.com>
Date: 11 Apr 90 21:01:32 GMT
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Reply-To: zwicky@sparkyfs.itstd.sri.com.UUCP (Elizabeth Zwicky)
Organization: SRI International, Menlo Park, CA 94025
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In article <7630002@hpccc.HP.COM> wille@hpccc.HP.COM (Ross Wille) writes:
>I was told some time ago that the early Apple EtherTalk cards had a
>firmware problem that evidenced itself by occasionally scrambling
>received data.  This problem only occurred, I was told, when the
>traffic on the Ethernet was particularly high. 

Yes, this is true. Unless you were a beta-test site, you never saw a
board with this problem. Those were *REALLY* early boards, and there
were only about 300 ever manufactured. I happen to have been at the
beta-test site that triggered this problem first... (It required a
massively loaded ethernet, as well as a bad board.)

	Elizabeth Zwicky