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- From: mbs@adastra.cvl.va.us (Michael B. Smith)
- Subject: Re: New ethernet card?
- References: <4hdjca$gql@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu> <va3f7bu65c.fsf@kea.doc.ic.ac.uk> <3149B2E3.16A5@bart.nl> <4il54j$mue@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu> <36884050@arkon.dontpanic.sub.org> <39963@lyssa.owl.de> <4ivge8$pk6@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu>
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- Date: Mon, 25 Mar 96 07:12:43 EDT
- Organization: Only if you insist...
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- In article <4ivge8$pk6@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu> djhoward@students.uiuc.edu (howard daniel joseph) writes:
- > I've been wondering, especially in the case of the I-Card ...
- >
- > Supposedly, the reason you can't just use standard PCMCIA
- > ethernet in A1200 is because no Ethernet cards available for PeeCee are
- > close enough to PCMCIA spec to write a SANA2 driver for them. Ergo, the
- > I-Card is closer to PCMCIA spec ... why can't IWorks write a PeeCee/Mac
- > driver or whatever and mass-market the fucker?
-
- Actually, the situation is slightly different. The PCMCIA hardware
- in the A600/A1200 is somewhat different than the standard PCMCIA
- hardware the PC's use.
-
- Interworks has the PCMCIA card that it sells _modified_ in order
- to work in the A1200 slot. The volumes are low, the modifications
- cost quite a bit of extra money -- that's why the price is so high.
- --
- // Michael B. Smith
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