Re: A86: Ethernet thread

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Subject: Re: A86: Ethernet thread
From: Nuno Sao Joao <nmasj@camoes.rnl.ist.utl.pt>
Date: Wed, 12 May 1999 18:11:49 +0100
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J D wrote:
> >   Ethernet would probably need a 12V source.
> 
> Ahhhh, I see.  This would require some serious hardware manipulation,
> wouldn't it?  We'd have to have someone actually design the equivalent of a
> network card for the thing, I guess.  What's the maximum speed you can get
> to on the link port as a data bus?  I have a feeling that that would be our
> worst bottleneck.

   The port link is, calculated very optimistically, at
   least about 64 times slower than the z80 can transfer
   values from a register to memory.

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A86: Ethernet thread

From: "J D" <starkruzr@hotmail.com>