From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Sep 12 15:09:48 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id PAA04113 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 12 Sep 1995 15:09:48 -0700 Received: from hemi.com (hemi.com [204.132.158.10]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id PAA04102 for ; Tue, 12 Sep 1995 15:09:46 -0700 Received: (from mbarkah@localhost) by hemi.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id QAA11356; Tue, 12 Sep 1995 16:08:48 -0600 From: Ade Barkah Message-Id: <199509122208.QAA11356@hemi.com> Subject: Re: Creating FreeBSD driver. How? To: julian@ref.tfs.com (Julian Elischer) Date: Tue, 12 Sep 1995 16:08:48 -0600 (MDT) Cc: terry@lambert.org, shamrock@netcom.com, hackers@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <199509122108.OAA00220@ref.tfs.com> from "Julian Elischer" at Sep 12, 95 02:08:55 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] Content-Type: text Content-Length: 661 Sender: hackers-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk > > ISO by itself is meaningless (means International Standards Organization) > > as far as telling us what the card capabilities are. It's probably just > > a manufacturer name. > I believe that thios card may impliment nat-semi's > ISOCHRONOUS ethernet.. (isoenet) I think you're right. The isochronous stuff will work wonders for multimedia applications, since the rate data are sent/ received is "fixed." No more jerky video over the net. -Ade -------------------------------------------------------------------- Inet: mbarkah@hemi.com - HEMISPHERE ONLINE - www: --------------------------------------------------------------------