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To: Aled Morris <aledm@relay-europe.ps.net>
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Subject: Re: best performance hardware 
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Date: Thu, 06 Apr 1995 16:38:22 -0700
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From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@freefall.cdrom.com>
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> My hardware vendor will throw in NE-2000 clones free, but from what I've 
> read on this list, they will take a lot of CPU to drive.  Do I need PCI 
> Ethernet boards, or will good ISA boards be enough (i.e. will I be able 
> to run at full Ethernet speed with a 3c509?)

Considering the price and performance of the SMC DC21040 based cards
(PCI), I see no reason to go with anything else.  Both David, I and
wcarchive are happy users of these cards!

					Jordan