On Sat, 17 Apr 1999, Riley Williams wrote:
> >>> 1. You refer to an "NE2000" card. Presumably you're aware that
> >>> those normally don't work in an XT as they require an AT style
> >>> connector and the similar NE1000 card with its XT style
> >>> connector has to be used instead.
> > My main concern for development is to have a card which:
> > Most people can get hold of, or already have.
> I can't speak generally, but certainly in this part of Scotland, and
> in the south Lincolnshire area of England, clones of both the NE1000
> and NE2000 are easily available. However, according to posts I've seen
> on the Linux-Kernel mailing list, NEx000 clone cars are essentially
> unknown in the USA, and the varius 3Cxxx cads are the ones that are
> easy to get hold of...
In my experience, NE1k and NE2k clones are readily available and common
here in the USA. They generally run $5-$10 (as low as $3 in quantity,)
with older models often given away rather than sold. Old 3-COM 3Cxxx cards
are also readily available, but they are often more expensive than
NE1k/NE2k clones, and I've heard they usually give better performance
(although I've not verified this.)
That being said, I doubt that the prices of these old cards will have any
affect whatsoever on which drivers are written first for ELKS.
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