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From: mwang@pandadesigns.com (Michael Wang)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc
Subject: Performance 3Com 3C509 vs. 3C590?
Date: 6 Jul 1996 00:33:40 GMT
Organization: Panda Designs
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Message-ID: <4rkc94$q6h@ns2.mainstreet.net>
NNTP-Posting-Host: pandadesigns.com

Hi, does anybody have know whether or not the 3COM 3C590 (PCI) offers
better performance under BSDI 2.1 compared with the 3C509 (ISA)?

I'm trying to spec a Pentium system for a heavy-traffic Web server and
wanted to know if it was worth the few extra dollars to get the PCI
version.

Thanks!


Michael Wang
mwang@pandadesigns.com