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Ken,
Will you be doing a followup on some other classic chips of that era, like the AMD Lance or the DEC Tulip chips? That would be a great compare/contrast to see how different teams solved the same problem space with different tradeoffs. Those tulip cards were the most reliable back in the day under linux as I recall, Don Becker wrote a bunch of those drivers if I recall correctly.
Neal,
Can you share some more stories as well? And it's interesting about the ASICs, did Sun do this so they could put a single ASIC on the motherboard and not have to use a PCI slot for an ethernet port?
And I too would love to learn more about the hme# design as well.
Nov 6, 2023, 5:32:39 PM
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