Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!rpi!clarkson!grape.ecs.clarkson.edu!nelson From: nelson@sun.soe.clarkson.edu (Russ Nelson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.zenith Subject: Re: ESDI vs AT bus ethernet card for Z-386 Message-ID: Date: 13 Feb 91 07:48:29 GMT References: <1991Feb11.215514.1768@yogi.fhhosp.ab.ca> Sender: @grape.ecs.clarkson.edu Reply-To: nelson@clutx.clarkson.edu (aka NELSON@CLUTX.BITNET) Organization: Clarkson University, Potsdam NY Lines: 20 In-Reply-To: henry@yogi.fhhosp.ab.ca's message of 11 Feb 91 21:55:14 MDT In article <1991Feb11.215514.1768@yogi.fhhosp.ab.ca> henry@yogi.fhhosp.ab.ca writes: I have a Z386/20 that I want to put on an ethernet network. Since it has both EISA and AT slots, I was wondering: 1) Does anyone make ethernet cards for EISA Yes, MYLEX does. I know nothing more about them than their existance. 2) Is it worth the extra money Hard to say. A good bit of your speed is lost transferring the packets from the board's memory to the system memory. So, if the board really is a 32-bit board, AND your packet transfers are aligned on 32-bit boundaries, you should see some speed increase. -- --russ I'm proud to be a humble Quaker. It's better to get mugged than to live a life of fear -- Freeman Dyson I joined the League for Programming Freedom, and I hope you'll join too.