Re: is there a market for this?

[Chris Wilson <cbw () atlantic net>]

On Mon, 21 Jul 1997, Perry E. Metzger wrote:

> PCI is 33mhz at 32bits = about a gigabit per second. Fast PCI is
> 66mhz, and a fast 64bit PCI standard is coming, which yields 4Gbps
> across the bus. Now, admittedly, you can't get that fully -- but if
> you claim you can't get a mere 45mbps across the bus per second you
> are doing something desperately wrong and stupid, like making the main
> CPU deal with *way* too much of the work. Of course, most serial
> communications companies ARE doing things desperately wrong and
> stupid, but that another story...

I'm not sure how the person who was discussing it on the other list was
doing it.. maybe they were talking about ISA ;) In any case, I'd be pretty
fearful of running OC-level bandwidth over a PC... "Gee, the corporate
network went down because the router's hard drive crashed!"

Chris

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