Date: Tue, 02 Jul 1996 23:41:55 -0700 From: "Michael L. VanLoon -- HeadCandy.com" <michaelv@HeadCandy.com> To: Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Cc: jparnas@jparnas.cybercom.net (Jacob M. Parnas), henry@zoo.toronto.edu, hardware@freebsd.org, bsdi-users@bsdi.com Subject: Re: muliport boards - building a PPP dialup server Message-ID: <199607030641.XAA11047@MindBender.HeadCandy.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of Sat, 29 Jun 96 17:14:29 %2B0930. <199606290744.RAA20801@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
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>What's the difference between an ethernet card and a high-speed serial
>card other than the name and the shape of the connectors?
>(Aside from performance, of course)
The fact that one handles things a character at a time, interrupting
for every few, and the other handles things a "packet" at a time,
interrupting for every "packet-full" of data. There's an order of
magnitude scaling difference there.
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