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From: "Kenneth J. Dupuis" <kdupuis@dcs.stu.rpi.edu>
To: Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
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Subject: Re: 3c590 problem
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On Sat, 2 Nov 1996, Michael Smith wrote:

> (I'm not sure what makes you think that a '590 is the only card you can
>  use to sustain that sort of throughput; you could do it with an NE2000...)

There are multiple cards in the machine, and that kind of traffic
multiplied will kill an ISA bus.  Peaks of 1MB/sec are quite common.