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From: ddp+@ANDREW.CMU.EDU (Drew Daniel Perkins)
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Subject: Re: Ethernet vs LocalTalk
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Date: 8 May 89 03:12:05 GMT
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> 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