From owner-freebsd-chat Sun May 9 22:37:31 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from rah.star-gate.com (rah.star-gate.com [209.249.129.138]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 86C4914D0B for ; Sun, 9 May 1999 22:37:06 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from hasty@rah.star-gate.com) Received: from rah.star-gate.com (localhost.star-gate.com [127.0.0.1]) by rah.star-gate.com (8.9.3/8.8.8) with ESMTP id WAA53783; Sun, 9 May 1999 22:36:23 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from hasty@rah.star-gate.com) Message-Id: <199905100536.WAA53783@rah.star-gate.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: "Francisco Reyes" Cc: "FreeBSd Chat list" Subject: Re: Ethernet card with TCP stack built in In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 10 May 1999 01:22:22 EDT." <199905100533.BAA12635@arutam.inch.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Sun, 09 May 1999 22:36:23 -0700 From: Amancio Hasty Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org I am sure that the NIC got discontinued . Remember the product was developed back in 1987 more than 12 years ago. Best Regards > On Sun, 09 May 1999 22:26:24 -0700, Amancio Hasty wrote: > > >For historical notes, Touch Communicatios implemented an ISO stack on > >on a 3com programmable NIC around 1987 --- I was part of Touch > >Communications. > > Any ideas what happened to that NIC? > It is my impression that chips that offload functions from the CPU seem > to be gaining some momentum. Probably because of advances in technology > and reduced cost of manufacturing such chips. > -- Amancio Hasty hasty@star-gate.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message