Le Wed, 01 Jun 2005 14:06:20 +0300, Mr.Jason a écrit*:

>> Ask someone who cares, technology is not a belief system, I choose
>> Intel pro/100 over RTL-8139 for a 50% measured performance boost on
>> _my_ equipment, and I trust the person taking the measurements.
>>
>> I don't give a rat's ring for your opinion, I'm secure in my
>> competency. Opinions are like arseholes, everybody has one.
>>
>> --Grant.
>
> I feel my system is also pretty much faster! I just wonder if I got also 50%
> increase in performance, I think you mean mostly networking performance? Did
> you experience performance boost on another applications too?

Yes, sure, the printing is much sharper, and the screen colours are
brighter, that's because of the bosons restored from the task of
spinning the Realtek I/O electrons on the correct revolution speed.

And in case you have a floppy, you'll notice dramatic enhancements
in pace and space !
I can now copy Gigabytes in zilch time on my floppies !!!


Here, 1.4 GB :

# dd if=/dev/null of=/dev/fd0 bs=1024 seek=1440000 count=0


Hurray !-)