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From: desnoyer@Apple.COM (Peter Desnoyers)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.appletalk
Subject: Re: Ethernet vs LocalTalk
Message-ID: <30295@apple.Apple.COM>
Date: 8 May 89 17:40:33 GMT
References: <03-May-89.133207@192.41.214.2> <oYNEK5y00UoJQ3rvBq@andrew.cmu.edu>
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In article <oYNEK5y00UoJQ3rvBq@andrew.cmu.edu> ddp+@ANDREW.CMU.EDU (Drew Daniel Perkins) writes:
#> Excerpts from ext.in.info-appletalk: 3-May-89 Re: Re: Ethernet vs
#> LocalTalk Amanda Walker@uunet.uu.n (2119)
#
#> The NuBus
#> certainly isn't appreciably slower than the VMEbus in a Sun; I doubt
#> that's a problem.
#
#Keep in mind that Van's highest speeds were with busless machines (SUN
#3/50).  There was no VME bus to get in the way, the lance has direct
#access to system memory.
#
#Drew

From my reading of Van's postings it seems that VME bus speed would
not have been a limiting factor. Besides, the VME-based Suns are 
faster than the 3/50.

				Peter Desnoyers