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- From: nelson@crynwr.com (Russell Nelson)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
- Subject: Beta TCP/IP
- Message-ID: <715229828snx@crynwr.com>
- Date: 31 Aug 92 02:57:08 GMT
- References: <1992Aug28.114657.25690@stc.nato.int>
- Organization: Crynwr Software
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- In article <1992Aug28.114657.25690@stc.nato.int> koelman@stc.nato.int writes:
-
- > My biased vote would be for a PCnet-ISA driver (it's the NE2100 card
- > in a chip). It's a high performance bus master ethernet chip which
- > we are agressively designing into PC motherboards. Depends on whether
- > you're interested in existing systems or future systems.
-
- which PC manufacturers/vendors actually supply motherboard
- ethernet?
-
- Not many so far. I perceive it to be more popular on slotless
- machines than on slotted. For example, Compaq and Zenith both have
- motherboard Ethernet on their portables. Zenith also has a desktop
- machine with an NE2000 built-in.
-
- -russ <nelson@crynwr.com> I'm proud to be a humble Quaker!
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