17 Sep
2008
17 Sep
'08
7:58 a.m.
On Wed, Sep 17, 2008 at 07:44:20AM -0700, Zane H. Healy wrote:
At 10:36 AM -0400 9/17/08, madodel wrote:
>There are usually a copy or 2 on eBay relatively cheap. But OS/2
>Warp had only dialup TCP support. For full TCP/IP stack you need
>Warp Connect or Warp 4.
I have a copy of Warp at home that I never got around to installing.
IIRC, I got it in 1995 or 1996 as part of a big IBM giveaway, so
whatever version would have been out around then is what I have.
I know Warp Connect only supports a *very* limited
number of NIC's.
Finding one that is supported was my biggest challenge, and I was
pulling from a large pool of NIC's.
Back when NIC weren't $10 each, I remember the easiest to work with
(in terms of compatibility) were the NE2000 and clones (NE1000 for
8-bit machines), the WD (later SMC) 8013, and the 3C501, later displaced
by the 3C509. Hopefully at least _one_ of those works with Warp
Connect. Some of those even work on an Amiga with a GG2 Bus+ card
(i.e., not the 3Com cards).
Since about 1996, if I've reached for an ISA NIC for a PC, it's
pretty much been a 3C509 - cheap, abundant, and they've worked
with every OS I happen to have tried them on (mostly DOS, Windows,
and various flavors of *IX)
So what NIC _did_ you eventually go with?
-ethan
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