7 Apr
2007
7 Apr
'07
10:42 p.m.
Dave Dunfield wrote:
You can doubtless find one closer to home, but *somewhere* I have an 8-bit
Ethernet card [1] pulled from an XT clone (and I stumbled across the boot
floppy with the network stack on it the other day - no idea if it's still
readable of course!). I can go digging for it if needs be...
[1] memory says it was a 3Com board, but memory also says it was full-length -
and I don't think that computes (looking at google, the majority of 3Com ISA
boards are short and 16-bit)
But neither
will
run in anything much faster than a slow 386. I've still got one in
original shrink wrap as well as one installed in a 5160.
I was afraid of that - Getting a 5160 to network (to get the
images off) is a little painful - I believe I have an 8088 compatible
network client, but all my network cards are 16-bit etc.) Yeah, I have to order a cat
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me too
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I'm still concerned about what documentation and resources there are out there
for the cat though - I mean quite a few must have been sold, and owners must
have thrown together quite a bit of code to drive them - but every time I've
dug around on the 'net it's been unclear as to what kind of user community
exists to actively share code and experiences.
(Plus I really don't want to be driving the thing under a heavyweight OS like
Windows - and God knows what the resources and docs are available for the
alternatives)
I don't mind hacking code together if I have to - but I really don't want to
be hacking the same code together that every other single owner has also had
to hack together; that's just a waste... :-)
cheers
J.