[rescue] FDDI card

[Phil Brutsche]

On Mon, 2002-02-25 at 01:56, James Sharp wrote:
> 1) There's always going to be a bottleneck in network IO as every byte
> that comes into the system has to be flipped around.  PC byteorder !=
> network byte order.

Which means what, exactly?

So PCs are little-endian.  As someone else mentioned, so are alphas.  As
are MIPS-powered DECstations.

I would wager that on any sufficiently recent PC (ie Pentium class or
faster) the speed difference is negligible.

If anything the bottleneck will be the relatively slow memory bus :)

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Phil