Date: Sun, 09 May 1999 22:41:31 -0700 From: Amancio Hasty <hasty@rah.star-gate.com> To: "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au> Cc: Francisco Reyes <freyes@inch.com>, FreeBSd Chat list <chat@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Ethernet card with TCP stack built in Message-ID: <199905100541.WAA53849@rah.star-gate.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 10 May 1999 15:05:42 %2B0930." <XFMail.990510150542.doconnor@gsoft.com.au>
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The scenario is a plausible given that windows is so ineficient 8) > > On 10-May-99 Francisco Reyes wrote: > > 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. > > And the cycle of reincarnation is coming around again :) > > Don't worry in a few years it will be back to what it was.. > > --- > Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer > for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au > "The nice thing about standards is that there > are so many of them to choose from." > -- Andrew Tanenbaum -- Amancio Hasty hasty@star-gate.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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