> Actually, the Tulip chipset was always an Intel-designed chipset, just > manufactured by DEC. Now, Intel manufactures them.
Huh??? What makes you think that? AFAIK: Intel designed the 825xx series of NIC's, which are OK, but like most things Intel, I'm not too fond of their architecture (anyone here ever written x86 assembly or worked with 8051's?). The 2114x (tulip) series of PCI NIC's were developed in the early-mid '90s by DEC, which was one of the first companies I'm aware of that designed and shipped a wide variety of PCI based system components. This was being driven by their Alpha processors, which have PCI bus controllers built-in to the CPU for maximum performance (ie no NorthBridge chip or it's equivlent required). I believe Intel got the rights to all the DEC semiconductor business (including the NIC & PCI bridge designs) when they bought it from Compaq...mainly to kill the Alpha chip, thus proping up their Merced/Itanium processor line, if rumors are to be believed. I still have DEC databooks for the 21140 dating from 1996, long before they imploded and got bought out... Charles Steinkuehler http://lrp.steinkuehler.net http://c0wz.steinkuehler.net (lrp.c0wz.com mirror) _______________________________________________ Leaf-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-user
