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Number: A2TH071990U177
Subject: No Workstation Drivers For NE3200 or NE2/32
Date: August 1, 1990
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GENERAL
INFORMATION: According to the product manager for 386 LAN drivers,
Novell's stand on workstation drivers for the NE3200 and
NE2-32 boards has not changed and is as follows:
There are no current plans to provide workstation drivers
for either the 286 or the 386 environment. Because these
boards are considered high-end file server cards and
marketing does not anticipate a large demand for these cards
to be used in workstations.
This isn't only a marketing issue.
DOS is a 16-bit OS, as are OS/2 and NetWare 286. As we all
know, this means they push data around 16 bits at a time.
Right? There is no way they would benefit significantly
from 32-bit LAN cards. Some recent benchmarks in PC
Magazine showed that the Compaq Systempro's 32-bit drive
array actually slowed DOS down! So the moral of the story
is 32-bit cards are for the 32-bit OS. There is really only
one.