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From: amanda@mermaid.intercon.com (Amanda Walker)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac,comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: how fast is Mac over ethernet?
Message-ID: <1990Apr11.171551.12904@intercon.com>
Date: 11 Apr 90 17:15:51 GMT
References: <1923@esquire.UUCP>
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In article <1923@esquire.UUCP>, yost@esquire.UUCP (David A. Yost) writes:
> How long does it take to send 10Mbytes
>  * memory to memory
>  * disk to disk
>  * on various Mac models?
>  * with various Ethernet cards

Hardware: Macintosh II, 5MB memory, 256K RAM Cache, Peripheral Land 140MB
	  hard disk, Asante NuBus Ethernet Card, talking to Data General
	  AViiON 300 UNIX workstation

Software: InterCon TCP/Connect II talking to UNIX FTP

Memory->Memory (RAMdisk -> /dev/null):		136.9 seconds	(74.8 KB/s)
Disk->Disk					173.2 seconds	(59.1 KB/s)

Disclaimer: I'am a co-author of TCP/Connect II, but you're more than welcome
	to check my figures :-)...

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Amanda Walker, InterCon Systems Corporation
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