From: Nick Hilliard (nick at domain iol.ie)
Date: Thu 23 Sep 1999 - 15:09:05 IST
> Ah. That makes me feel better. It was an Sun SSE that told me it was
> 25MB/sec, and they generally know stuff like that.
It's a 25Mhz bus, not a 25Mb/sec bus.
> It's amazing that Sun
> had that bus in 1989, when IPXs & stuff were around.
Indeed. This historically led to a lot of (well-justified) hardware
snobbery between those who used decent hardware and those who used PC's,
which at that stage were limited to good old 4.77Mhz ISA, or EISA which was
just coming in at the time.
Nick
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