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Raspberry Pi Pico Bit-Bangs 100 Mbit/S Ethernet

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264 points chaosprint | 3 comments | 29 Oct 25 23:21 UTC | HN request time: 0.808s | source
1. inferiorhuman ◴[30 Oct 25 10:49 UTC] No.45758495[source]▶
Not quite the same but I was looking at PowerBook G4 specs last night. Apple was doing gigabit ethernet in a mid-priced laptop ($2200 in 2001 dollars) 25 years ago. Meanwhile I'm pretty sure I have some 10baseT gear kicking around.
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2. dd_xplore ◴[30 Oct 25 11:10 UTC] No.45758680[source]▶
It’s not the same thing! Pico is a microcontroller, it’s also not a native ethernet implementation.
3. MBCook ◴[30 Oct 25 13:56 UTC] No.45760079[source]▶
That would have had a dedicated chip doing the work.