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From: phil@amdcad.AMD.COM (Phil Ngai)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc,comp.dcom.lans
Subject: Re: Info on WD EtherCard PLUS
Message-ID: <22466@amdcad.AMD.COM>
Date: 27 Jul 88 03:10:04 GMT
References: <128@pbseps.UUCP>
Reply-To: phil@amdcad.UUCP (Phil Ngai)
Organization: Advanced Micro Devices
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In article <128@pbseps.UUCP> rdp@pbseps.PacBell.COM (Richard Perlman) writes:
>NOW:  What are we missing here?  Is there anything we should know
>about the WD board, the combination of board & PC-NFS, our net
>design,  or ??

Usually you get what you pay for. In this case, you get a very high
quality network at a rock bottom price. We use this combination with
great success here. The WD board is fast, PC-NFS has lots of nice
features (though it is not perfect) and the two play nicely together. 

KA9Q is even cheaper than PC-NFS but I find the network file system to
be indispensible. 

We believe the LANCE is a better chip than what WD uses but you can't
really buy an AT board with an LANCE on it to use with PC-NFS yet. 

-- 

I speak for myself, not the company.
Phil Ngai, {ucbvax,decwrl,allegra}!amdcad!phil or phil@amd.com