----- Original Message ----- From: "Martin Marshall" <martinm(a)allwest.net> To: <cctalk(a)classiccmp.org> Sent: Thursday, April 17, 2003 3:18 PM Subject: Re: What is a Smartnet Arnet card? "Arnet Smartport" "Made in USA" and "Copyright 1985 Arnet Corporation". It has a daughterboard marked "Arnet Smart Plus 4". The main board has two copper shielded 34 pin ribbon cables that extend out the back panel. Snybody know what this is? The Arnet "Smart" cards had on-card microprocessor and buffering for better throughput and lower main cpu utilization. The other "non-smart" cards were more like a plain old serial card on a PC, differing mostly in that they had more than 2 ports. I have a 4-port Arnet card (non-smart) that has a (large) ISA card, a ribbon cable, and an external mounting plate with a "breakout box" (built for a max of 8 ports), with 4 connectors loaded. I used it with SCO UNIX and it worked fine, actually better than the SCO UNIX did :-) It is very difficult to develop C code with a compiler that dumps core every time I try to generate a listing file...(dang M$ compiler!). Digi DID acquire Arnet some time back. Last time I looked, Digi still had some drivers and documentation for the Arnet stuff on their web site. Stuart Johnson