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To: Hugh LaMaster <lamaster@george.arc.nasa.gov>
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Subject: Re: *** Real Action Item: SPECweb 
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From: David Greenman <dg@root.com>
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>
>On Fri, 24 Apr 1998, Don Wilde wrote:
>
>> Yep, that was the first thing I noticed. 5 _Intelligent_ 100Base-T cards
>> in theirs.
>
>I'm not arguing against the Intel cards, but, isn't the performance
>on DEC Tulip cards about as good?  Any numbers somewhere on this?

   The DEC card/driver uses about 20% more CPU at the same datarate.

-DG

David Greenman
Co-founder/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project

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