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To: Aled Morris <aledm@relay-europe.ps.net>
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Subject: Re: best performance hardware 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 06 Apr 95 21:16:40 BST."
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From: David Greenman <davidg@Root.COM>
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Date: Thu, 06 Apr 1995 16:37:24 -0700
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>The machines will have 90MHz CPUs, 32Mb RAM, Adaptec PCI SCSI and 2Gb
>or 4Gb disks.  The net connections will be to an (as yet unpurchased)
>Ethernet switch connected to a FDDI backbone. 
>
>Thoughts?  Recommendations?  I checked out the FAQ but there's nothing in 
>there about relative performance of the different supported hardware.

   Yeah; get a Compex, SMC, or DEC PCI ethernet adapter (something with a
DC21040 chip on it). This is the fastest/lowest overhead card we support.

-DG