Network cards and Win98SE

Ethan Dicks ethan.dicks at gmail.com
Mon May 13 20:52:08 CDT 2019


On Mon, May 13, 2019 at 5:47 PM Grant Taylor via cctalk
<cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote:
> On 5/13/19 3:58 PM, Chuck Guzis via cctalk wrote:
> > I don't want to get into a long discussion; I merely wanted to point
> > out that you're unlikely to find the term "gaming adapter" in Linux
> > tech docs as they're not written for that audience.
>
> You /might/ not find the term in a Linux tech doc.  But I'd be somewhat
> surprised if you didn't.
<
> The first eight hits on a google search for "gaming adapter" are
> directly relevant.

I had to google "gaming adapter" because I had never heard the term
before, and I've been working with 802.11 since 2001 when all we had
was 2mbps.

I don't have a game console to hook up, and if I did, I'd run a
wire... so "gaming adapter" was a null term for me prior to this
thread.

-ethan


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