22 Nov
2005
22 Nov
'05
11:36 p.m.
On Wed, November 23, 2005 5:21 am, Dave Mitton said:
The first DEC manufactured Ethernet card for the PC
bus was the ISA DEPCA.
It was based on the AMD Lance design that was implemented in the
VAXmate (the first DEC PC that was somewhat IBM PC compatible)
Ah yes! I've got my eye on a VAXmate.....I'd forgotten about the DEPCA and
it's Big Blue Jumper to toggle between AUI and BNC though....
The DEPCA did not have "DECnet" in it.
Though it might have had a
boot ROM that could support MOP downline load. It did have a unique
memory mapped architecture where the buffer pool on the card could be
We've got a couple at work so I can check :)
By the way PATHWORKS for Windows V3.1 and Windows for
Workgroups
supported DECnet, TCP/IP, NetWare and NetBEUI, mix and match, without
rebooting.
$gods, you've just reminded me of the hellish weekend spent trying to get
Pathworks 5 VAX talking to Pathworks WFW3.11...we'd been using PCSA 4.2
and got on fine with that but PW5 was a different beast altogether!
Cheers
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