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From: phil@amdcad.AMD.COM (Phil Ngai)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip.ibmpc
Subject: Western Digital board
Message-ID: <21523@amdcad.AMD.COM>
Date: 10 May 88 06:30:10 GMT
Organization: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc., Sunnyvale, Ca.
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I was looking at the WD Ethernet literature and they make a big deal
out of NOT having DMA. They claim dual ported memory makes system
configuration easier (there are only a few DMA channels and allocating
them is hard), and that the strings instructions on ATs is faster
anyway. They point out the 286 on an AT beats the 186 in Excelan etc
style boards. 

Any comments on this?

I was quoted a price of $207...
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Phil Ngai, {ucbvax,decwrl,allegra}!amdcad!phil or phil@amd.com