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Article #5770Re: New ethernet card?
From: Michael B. Smith
Date: Mon, 25 Mar 1996 11:12
Date: Mon, 25 Mar 1996 11:12
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In article <4ivge8$pk6@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu> djhoward@students.uiuc.edu (howard daniel joseph) writes: > I've been wondering, especially in the case of the I-Card ... > > Supposedly, the reason you can't just use standard PCMCIA > ethernet in A1200 is because no Ethernet cards available for PeeCee are > close enough to PCMCIA spec to write a SANA2 driver for them. Ergo, the > I-Card is closer to PCMCIA spec ... why can't IWorks write a PeeCee/Mac > driver or whatever and mass-market the fucker? Actually, the situation is slightly different. The PCMCIA hardware in the A600/A1200 is somewhat different than the standard PCMCIA hardware the PC's use. Interworks has the PCMCIA card that it sells _modified_ in order to work in the A1200 slot. The volumes are low, the modifications cost quite a bit of extra money -- that's why the price is so high. -- // Michael B. Smith \X/ mbs@adastra.cvl.va.us
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!hearst.acc.Virginia.EDU!adastra!mbs Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.networking From: mbs@adastra.cvl.va.us (Michael B. Smith) Subject: Re: New ethernet card? References: <4hdjca$gql@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu> <va3f7bu65c.fsf@kea.doc.ic.ac.uk> <3149B2E3.16A5@bart.nl> <4il54j$mue@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu> <36884050@arkon.dontpanic.sub.org> <39963@lyssa.owl.de> <4ivge8$pk6@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu> X-NewsReader: GRn 3.1 March 23, 1996 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Message-ID: <mbs.4ai3@adastra.cvl.va.us> Date: Mon, 25 Mar 96 07:12:43 EDT Organization: Only if you insist...