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From: Jim Shankland <jas@flyingfox.com>
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To: dennis@etinc.com
Subject: Re: ISDN
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dennis@etinc.com writes:

> >Now if there were an internal ISDN card that did the PPP
> >framing and CRC generation/checking itself, and interrupted
> >once per PPP frame (analogous to what an Ethernet card does),
> >and were robust and reliable and well-supported and cheap,
> >and came with a solid FreeBSD driver, or at least with good
> >enough support and specs to write a solid FreeBSD driver, and
> >... oops, I just woke up.
> 
> Yeah, and you forgot....
> 
> ..and costs $89......

No, I said *cheap*.  With 100 Mb/s Ethernet cards costing $69, $89 is
way too much to pay.

But as I said, it was all a dream.

Jim Shankland
Flying Fox Computer Systems, Inc.