Would a Zorro III X-Surf work at 100Mb/s?

[platon42]

> AFAIK there are very few (no?) 100Mbit ISA NIC's and so the conversation is moot.

There is, and I've written a driver for a zorro II prototype. Unfortunately, the TCP/IP software usually is already at its limits performancewise, and except for having a 100MBit endpoint, the speed gain is indeed moot.

Things might be different with Zorro III DMA, but this is a bit tricky. In any case you need to be using a different TCP/IP stack than MiamiDx (hey, where's Roadstar 68k, wasn't it to be release 5 years ago?), which is already at its limits when doing NAT/Gateway/PPPoE functionality below 100KB/sec with a 68060@50MHz. I haven't been able to push Miami above 800KB/sec at any settings.

[platon42]

> Chris, did you ever get that PCMCIA PC-Card USB Host I sent you? (Through Michael Boehmer).

Indeed I saw it and held it in my hand once and it looked pretty nice. Unfortunately, I don't have a machine with a PCMCIA port that would fit this kind of card. If'd send you the docs and maybe even a framework, would you be able to write a low level driver for it yourself?

[platon42]

> Didn't Olaf say in one of the CAM's that he had an agreement with Hyperion that Roadshow 68k wouldn't be released before OS4 (IIRC, there was a date clause too)?

I can remember things that long ago. All this quarrelling and fighting should have been over long time ago. But as far as I know Roadstar, which is Roadshow 68k + Reaction GUI would not have been affected by some Hyperion agreement but was not released due to the GUI code not getting finished... :-(

[platon42]

> I would love a 100Mb NIC card but as Chris said...

... I have this nifty USB 2.0 10/100MBit Ethernet adapter here for 20 EUR... ;-)