[geeks] FOIRL card rant

[geeks at sunhelp.org]

JFogg at vicinity.com writes:

>Its a 10mbs card. Period. No matter how fast the bus is, its still 10mbs.
>Its NOT fiber channel.
>Its not speedy.
>The only thing FOIRL is good for is overcomming distance limits of copper
>(with some questionable full duplex benefits).

I almost got to play with it at work once, when there was brief
talk of putting a PC in our plastic extrusion department, which is
at the far end of an electrily noisy factory. But alas, they blew
it off.

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