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nelson@crynwr.com (Russell Nelson) writes:
: In article <1992Dec18.014021.24510@fallst> tkevans@eplrx7.es.dupont.com writes:
: 
:    ccewch@nuscc.nus.sg (Wong Chee Heng) writes:
:    
:    >Can anyone suggest a brand of ethernet card with these features:
: 
:    >-have both Rj-45 and BNC connector, or with AUI connector
:    >-auto-sense between these connectors
:    >-Have NDIS drivers for DOS and OS/2 1.x and 2.0
:    >-have 16-bit ISA and/or 32-bit EISA version
:    >-reasonablly well perform, comparable to 3c503
: 
:    What's wrong with the 3c503?  It meets all your spec's
:    above.  Well, it doesn't auto-sense which connector is
:    connected, but it is software settable.  Yes, there is a
:    BNC/Twisted Pair model, and it's a 16-bitter.
: 
: The 11.x 3c503 packet driver will auto-sense.
: 
: -russ <nelson@crynwr.com> What canst *thou* say?
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The idea card is to have both the BNC and RJ-45 in one card not diff. model.
and able to autosense. Also I heard that 3C503-16 is not a true 16-bit card
due to the backward compatibility of the drivers supplied by 3COM (?), so one
do not get the kind of performance gain expected. 

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Wong Chee Heng
Systems Programmer
ccewch@nuscc.nus.sg.