[rescue] Re: Why is everyone so OSX happy? (Phil Stracchino)

[Kevin]

Does that mean the NIC on some Suns sucks as well or that
the guy at Apple was confused, either is very much
possible :)

>From what he said, when connected to a gigabit port the NIC
operates in "software" mode much like a Winmodem does.  He
could give no further explanation of what this means. 
This was regarding the NIC in the dual G4 towers, although i
would assume they would be the same as the ones in the Ti.

/KRM

On Fri, 11 Apr 2003 16:24:47 -0400
"J. Alexander Jacocks" <jjacocks at mac.com> wrote:

> Actually, AFAIK the Apple 10/100/1000 NIC on (at least) the
> TiG4 was designed by Sun, and is _extremely_ similar to
> their implementation for Sparcs.