17 Sep
2008
17 Sep
'08
12:29 p.m.
On Wednesday 17 September 2008 10:58, Ethan Dicks wrote:
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).
I had a machine running that for a while and can say that the 3c509 does
indeed work...
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)
Yup!
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