Peter C. Wallace wrote: > As John says the real problem is getting realtime Ethernet support on the EMC > host. > > As I said before maybe the way to ease into this is just support 1 or a few > Ethernet chips, and require the user to have a add-in PCI/PCIe Ethernet card > with the required chip. > Having fought this problem to some extent with the par port, I can't IMAGINE the headache when a potential customer shows up and you tell him "Oh, it only works on computers with a DEC Tulip ethernet chip." Add, he says, "How do I tell, sight unseen, whether any particular computer has that specific chip?" No, it has to have a bit wider hardware support to be viable.
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