Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!decwrl!amdcad!pepsi!phil From: phil@pepsi.amd.com (Phil Ngai) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc Subject: Re: Steve Gibson's 386sx column Message-ID: <29158@amdcad.AMD.COM> Date: 13 Feb 90 20:19:48 GMT References: <29140@amdcad.AMD.COM> Sender: news@amdcad.AMD.COM Reply-To: phil@pepsi.AMD.COM (Phil Ngai) Organization: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. Sunnyvale CA Lines: 18 In article nelson@clutx.clarkson.edu writes: |are quite a few of these boards, among them the 3c501 and ni5010 (I |wouldn't put either of these in a 386), Novell NE[12]000 and clones. According to the NetWare Buyer's Guide, the Novell cards have on board buffer RAM. Are you saying this RAM is not in the PC's memory address space? |I don't know how much performance you lose when you use an I/O based |Ethernet card. I'm not a performance freak so as long as it's not too bad I don't care. How fast can a PC print anyway? (printer sharing is my main application) -- Phil Ngai, phil@amd.com {uunet,decwrl,ucbvax}!amdcad!phil When guns are outlawed, only governments will have guns.