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From: jbn@wdl1.UUCP
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Subject: Re: Codex 2660 series modems
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Date: Fri, 10-May-85 17:20:52 EDT
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      The increasing intelligence of peripherals is certainly reaching
amazing levels.  Take a look at any of the intelligent Ethernet controllers.
CMC's is especially impressive; M68000, 128KB RAM, ROM, LANCE chip, etc.
all on one VMEbus card.  They had to use 1Mb single inline RAM packages to
make it all fit, but they did it.  Excelan's is equally crammed, although
Intel 186 based.
      Then there's DEC, which seems to have a corporate policy of not using
microprocessors in peripherals, except maybe a J11 now and then or that
strange mid-70s vintage microengine in the DMC/DMR/KMC board family.

					John Nagle