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To: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>
Subject: Re: A truly losing laptop for FreeBSD. 
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Date: Fri, 30 Jan 1998 15:36:06 -0700
From: Warner Losh <imp@village.org>
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In message <199801301238.XAA04311@word.smith.net.au> Mike Smith writes:
: Hmm, I haven't noticed that with this unit (a 220CDS); I happily get 
: ~1MB/sec over my NE2000 clone. 
: 
: OTOH, I'm faster with a pencil that the disk in it; not sure where the 
: bottleneck is there.

My libretto is plenty snappy.  I get similar results to what Mike has
been seeing.  The disk drive is a little slow, but not all that bad.
FreeBSD supports my beast, modulo the floppy drive, very very well.

Warner