Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 8/7/84; site ucbvax.ARPA Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!ucbvax!medin From: medin@ucbvax.ARPA (Milo Medin) Newsgroups: net.dcom,net.unix-wizards Subject: Re: Ethernet Controllers/DEUNA/IF11 Message-ID: <2129@ucbvax.ARPA> Date: Sun, 23-Sep-84 14:27:42 EDT Article-I.D.: ucbvax.2129 Posted: Sun Sep 23 14:27:42 1984 Date-Received: Wed, 26-Sep-84 04:44:59 EDT References: <347@mddc.UUCP> Organization: University of California at Berkeley Lines: 18 Dont use the DEUNA!! Sure, its a fast board, and there are good drivers for it, but the sucker takes 15 amps of the +5 unibus power supply! You can literally cook your dinner on the board. This greatly decreases the power availiable for other stuff like muxes and disk controllers, etc... I recommend the interlan board. Its a good well made reliable board at a good price. I had to cancel an order of DEUNA's for some vaxen here at NASA because they needed more power than was available on the systems. By the way, I had a good look at one a week ago, and the board is built out of standard TTL. Who uses standard TTL anymore? Also, beware of the DEC salespeople, the guy who tried to sell us the boards didnt realize their power consumption and designed a system that overran unibus power by 10 AMPS. When I showed him the stats for the boards, he recommended we not buy DEC... Milo