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Michael Smith wrote:
> 
>
> The Lance was used because the only alternative was the i82586, and
> you're welcome to ask Garret about that.

personally I'd rather an 82586..

I've  a LOT of experience with those, and I can make them do
anything I want.

> 
> I'm not sure if you'd have trouble with two Lance-style chips on one
> card though; they use busmaster DMA to talk to their memory, which
> might also be a problem wrt. bandwidth.
>