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Re:2,500 continuous runtime hours on a 4.77Mhz DOS web server by mbbrutman on Friday July 14, 2023 @09:47PM (#36732363)
The Xircom is pretty bad, as it costs a lot to do the I/O through the parallel port. Just using TCP/IP sockets (no disk access or processing) the machine can send and received about 42KB/sec. A better adapter can do nearly 3x that on the same machine.

Performance measurements here: https://www.brutman.com/mTCP/mTCP_Performance.html

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Re:2,500 continuous runtime hours on a 4.77Mhz DOS web server by anyfoo on Friday July 14, 2023 @09:52PM (#36732387)
So about 1Mbps max with a good adapter? Wow, more than I thought... yeah, a hard disk of the era, not even AT bus, most likely won't be able to keep up with that, heh.
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