[ale] pls sanity check my article

[Julian Powell]

I'm in computer recycling and I have _never_ seen a VL-bus NIC.  That
doesn't mean they weren't made, but pretty unlikely given the amount of
hardware that moves thru here.  PCI, EISA and MCA, yes, VL-no.  Most (if
not all) VL-bus machines I have seen had two VL slots.

Julian Powell
www.zentech.org

> I can confirm that an ISA/VL bus 486DX/33 with two ISA NICs can NAT firewall
> at 1.3Kb/s incoming.  I do not know if the machine in question was the
> limiting factor.  A PCI, MCA, or EISA 486 might be able to do better if you
> can find the proper NICs.  Were there ever VL NICs?  Were there any machines
> with more than one slot (or built-in VL NIC with one available VL slot?
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