From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Sep 28 10:56:53 1995 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id KAA22522 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 28 Sep 1995 10:56:53 -0700 Received: from blob.best.net (blob.best.net [204.156.128.88]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id KAA22517 for ; Thu, 28 Sep 1995 10:56:51 -0700 Received: from shell1.best.com (shell1.best.com [204.156.128.10]) by blob.best.net (8.6.12/8.6.5) with ESMTP id KAA14432; Thu, 28 Sep 1995 10:56:49 -0700 Received: from rompel (rompel.vip.best.com [204.156.141.238]) by shell1.best.com (8.6.12/8.6.5) with SMTP id KAA12655; Thu, 28 Sep 1995 10:56:48 -0700 Message-Id: <199509281756.KAA12655@shell1.best.com> Comments: Authenticated sender is From: "David Rompel" Organization: None To: Brian Tao Date: Thu, 28 Sep 1995 10:56:57 -800 Subject: Re: Newest Dec 100Mbit enet chip announce Reply-to: rompel@best.com CC: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Priority: normal X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Windows (v2.01) Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk Hi Brian, that price is for the chipset, probably a single chip It probably only needs voltage generation hw to produce the correct interface voltage (see below). Very cool price as this is in the ball park of what name brand (National & AMD) 10 MBit parts go for, bringing manufacturing costs in the $35/card range (don't quote me on this). Contact DEC marketing for more information or see their web page. cut from orig. usenet posting: The 100Mbps port contains a complete media independent interface (MII) to support voice-grade, data-grade, shielded twisted pair, and unshielded twisted pair cabling in any TX or T4 installation. [snip] All Digital press releases, fact sheets and backgrounders are archived on ftp.digital.com in the /pub/Digital/info/pr-news directory. They are also available at http://www.digital.com/ on the World Wide Web . > Date: Thu, 28 Sep 1995 02:22:24 -0400 (EDT) > From: Brian Tao > To: David Rompel > Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org > Subject: Re: Newest Dec 100Mbit enet chip announce > On Wed, 27 Sep 1995, David Rompel wrote: > > > > Price, Availability > > > > The 21140A PCI Fast Ethernet controller is priced at $23.30 in > > quantities of 5,000. > > Is that price just for the controller chip(set) or for a full > working PCI board? Considering there isn't a lot of markup on > computer hardware, that's an amazing price... > -- > Brian Tao > System Administrator, Internex Online Inc. > "Though this be madness, yet there is method in't" > > >