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From: tsui@cica.cica.indiana.edu (Yufeng Tsui)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac,comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: how fast is Mac over ethernet?
Message-ID: <851@cica.cica.indiana.edu>
Date: 12 Apr 90 05:25:07 GMT
References: <1923@esquire.UUCP> <1990Apr11.171551.12904@intercon.com>
Reply-To: tsui@cica.indiana.edu (Yufeng Tsui)
Organization: Indiana University, Bloomington
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In article <1990Apr11.171551.12904@intercon.com> amanda@mermaid.intercon.com (Amanda Walker) writes:
>In article <1923@esquire.UUCP>, yost@esquire.UUCP (David A. Yost) writes:
>> How long does it take to send 10Mbytes
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>
>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
>
>Memory->Memory (RAMdisk -> /dev/null):		136.9 seconds	(74.8 KB/s)
>Disk->Disk					173.2 seconds	(59.1 KB/s)
I tried on my machine, MacIIx, 4 Meg RAM. 187k/second. disk to disk
MacIIx --> NeXT, MacTCP.  The two machines are on the same ether cable about
40 feet away from each other.

--yufeng