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From: djo7613@milton.u.washington.edu (Dick O'Connor)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.zenith
Subject: Re: ESDI vs AT bus ethernet card for Z-386
Message-ID: <16291@milton.u.washington.edu>
Date: 12 Feb 91 16:36:56 GMT
References: <1991Feb11.215514.1768@yogi.fhhosp.ab.ca>
Organization: University of Washington, Seattle
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You mean EISA (extended industry standard architecture bus), not ESDI
(a hard disk interface spec).  At this point in time, I haven't seen
any supported claims of better network throughput using EISA cards.
The standard 8-bit and 16-bit network cards we use seem plenty fast
enough over 10 mbit Ethernet.  But my only experience is with small
(up to 20) machine local area networks.  If your network is enterprise-wide
or international, it's a whole new can of worms.