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Date:      Sat, 28 Aug 1999 17:47:44 +0930 (CST)
From:      "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au>
To:        Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
Cc:        hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, Kris Kirby <kris@airnet.net>
Subject:   RE: Cheap link (was: Are the ethernet drivers time dependent?)
Message-ID:  <XFMail.990828174744.doconnor@gsoft.com.au>
In-Reply-To: <19990828174145.K13904@freebie.lemis.com>

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On 28-Aug-99 Greg Lehey wrote:
>  So what's wrong with PLIP?  Last time I used it, I was getting about
>  50 kB/s out of it.

PLIP has a terrible CPU/speed ratio.. You have to busy wait while bashing the
parallel port which is just yech :(

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Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer
for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au
"The nice thing about standards is that there
are so many of them to choose from."
  -- Andrew Tanenbaum

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