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From: john@IASTATE.EDU (Hascall John Paul)
Newsgroups: comp.multimedia
Subject: Re: Data Transmition Rares
Message-ID: <1991Feb25.091911@IASTATE.EDU>
Date: 25 Feb 91 15:19:11 GMT
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In article <39096@muvms3.bitnet>, crp002@muvms3.bitnet writes:
> 
> I came up with a transmition rate of roughly 1221 megabytes/second based on
> the 100 ns memory of an XT.

   How, pray tell, do you propose to get 1221 MB/sec from a memory capable
of delivering no more than 10M memory cycles/sec?  Transfer 122.1 bytes/cycle?
I didn't know the XT had such a wide bus!  Never mind how you are going
transmit 10 Gb/sec (that's well into the microwave spectrum) -- of course,
you said expensive, so 1000 ethernets ought to do the job!


John

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