Quake on the older Amigas

[adolescent]

whabang wrote:

Bus speed is an important faxtor here. VESA is much faster than Zorro.

Maybe Zorro 2, but not Zorro 3.  IIRC, VESA bus theoretical max was ~16MB/sec.

[adolescent]

yogisumo wrote:

Makes sense and is probably the reason why 10/100 ISA network cards were never made.

Wrong.  10/100 ISA netcards have been made by Intel, HP, etc.  

[adolescent]

@yogisumo

I've only experienced the HP cards which used proprietary 10/100VG Ethernet, so it's hard to compare it with modern 10/100 equipment.  But, even on the 386 and 486 machines at the time they were very fast.  I never got a raw transfer speed but you could definately tell the difference between the 10Mb cards.  Just a note that even at 4MB/s that's more than 3 times the speed of a 10Mb card which is "why".