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Date:      Mon, 10 May 1999 01:22:22 -0400
From:      "Francisco Reyes" <freyes@inch.com>
To:        "Amancio Hasty" <hasty@rah.star-gate.com>
Cc:        "FreeBSd Chat list" <chat@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: Ethernet card with TCP stack built in
Message-ID:  <199905100533.BAA12635@arutam.inch.com>

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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.



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