Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!ames!oliveb!apple!desnoyer
From: desnoyer@Apple.COM (Peter Desnoyers)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.appletalk
Subject: Re: Ethernet vs LocalTalk
Message-ID: <29980@apple.Apple.COM>
Date: 2 May 89 16:59:08 GMT
References: <278@suna.CMI.COM>
Organization: Apple Computer Inc, Cupertino, CA
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In article <278@suna.CMI.COM> dave@suna.cmi.com.UUCP (David Halonen) writes:
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>Its my feeling that the CPU speeds must be increased in order for the
>advantages of Ethernet to be realized.  Comments, anyone?

Van Jacobson at Lawrence Berkeley Labs has gotten ~9Mbit performance
from an experimental version of TCP/IP (with full checksumming) on Sun
3/50s and 3/60s.  (about MacII speed processors) With enough
optimization AppleTalk should be able to do this, as well.  

				Peter Desnoyers