20 Nov
2005
20 Nov
'05
11:07 p.m.
On 20/11/05 14:44, "Gil Carrick" <gilcarrick at comcast.net> wrote:
I can't find many references to it, but here are a
couple:
http://archive.ncsa.uiuc.edu/SDG/Software/Brochure/Overview/PCTelnet.overvie
w.html
http://www.zoology.ubc.ca/~rikblok/TipsnTricks/win98.html
The lack of references make me think that these people are just being
imprecise. There are also references to "DECNet Adapter" but they are
talking about a software adapter.
Hmm.... The 2nd one is obviously a mistake since win98 has detected the card
as a PCI based DEC 21040-powered card like the venerable DE500, the first
one is talking about an ISA card and I don't know of any ISA cards that DEC
did, though obviously that doesn't mean they didn't exist :)
The first card I'm aware of is the DE100 which was an AUI/BNC switchable
EISA card. Also for the first one, if it WAS a DECnet card you certainly
wouldn't have been able to run TELNET over it and I didn't think DECnet had
ever been ported to the PC architecture until DEC themselves did a DECnet
stack as part of Pathworks/PCSA in the 80s.
Cheers
A