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From: drake@sd2.almaden.ibm.com (Sam Drake)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: Yet Another Killer Micro?
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Date: 4 Mar 90 09:00:06 GMT
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In article <1990Mar1.175823.10643@smsc.sony.com> amir@Sony.COM (Amir ) writes:
>
>Talking about the price, I noticed that the hard disk is standard but
>ethernet board is not in the IBM systems.  This doesn't make much sense.
>Is this really true?  

Sure it makes sense; mebbee you want Ethernet, mebbee you want Token Ring,
mebbee you want X.25, mebbee you don't want anything.  Why pay for what
you don't want?  Options are good....  Note that the widely discussed $12,995
configuration DOES include an Ethernet card, however.

>                                                                Also, if it
>is a microchannel card, what are the chances of it being high performance?
>Hopefully, it is not a PS/2 card....

It's a special card for the 6000; the card is a MicroChannel "bus master"
and should thus be a good performer.

Opinions are my own.


Sam Drake / IBM Almaden Research Center 
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