[rescue] FDDI card

[Dave McGuire]

On February 25, Amy wrote:
> > > > anymore, the sent me one of their nice "server" cards, with a bunch of
> > > > neat tricks built in.  (PeeCee Wake on Lan, that sort of thing)
> > >
> > > Wake on Lan on a server?  that just seems rather silly to me.
> >
> >   A PeeCee as a server seems pretty silly in the first place.
> 
> why?

  Well, just off the top of my head:

  1) generally unreliable hardware
  2) horrid context switching performance
  3) nasty interrupt service latency called caused by #2 above
  4) all but the very best & newest ones perform like shit
  5) total lack of *fully functional* serial console support 
    (If anyone wants to argue that point...I guarantee I've tried
     more of them than you have!)
  6) its aim as a single-user desktop platform is reflected in its
     performance when pressed into service in applications for which
     it wasn't designed
  7) terrible packaging density on all but the most expensive models
  8) total lack of any *reasonable* boot ROM (like OpenBoot)

    -Dave

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Dave McGuire
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