jbvb@VAX.FTP.COM (James Van Bokkelen) (08/24/88)
Western Digital's WD8003/A uses the Nat. Semi. 8390 LAN controller chip. 3Com's 3C523, U-B's NIC-PS/2 and MICOM-Interlan's NI9210 all use the Intel 82586 LAN controller chip. They are all architecturally similar, in that they have no on-board processor and use shared memory. In my opinion, most speed differences you might see would probably be a function of the skill of the driver author and the speed of the underlying PS/2 platform, not the cards themselves. Neither controller chip is capable of receiving packets at the minimum Ethernet back-to-back separation, but I don't think Netware is likely to be as bothered by this as TCP/IP can be. James VanBokkelen FTP Software Inc.