On Thu, Jun 22, 2006 at 01:33:36PM +0200, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> On Thu, 2006-06-22 at 12:34 +0100, Alan Cox wrote:
> > The 8390 change (corrected version) also makes 8390.c faster so should
> > be applied anyway,
>
> 8390 is such a race monster that a few cycles matter a lot! :-)
It sure is. Back in the old days I could saturate a 10 Mbit ethernet
segment using a Western Digital 8003 (the 8 bit ISA card) in a 386DX40
(running Linux 1.0, 1.2, and 1.3).
Erik
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