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Subject: Western Digital 8003 family
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Date: 3 Aug 89 03:23:36 GMT
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Hi,

     I have some minor questions according to the Western Digital
8003 family.

WD8003E - XT-Bus-Ethernet-Adaptor:
This member of the family we use under MS-DOS with NCSA-Telnet,
PC/IP (FTP) and PC-NFS (Sun) and under 386/ix with Interactive's
TCP/IP, NFS and X-windows. This works fine.

WD8003S -XT-Bus-Starlan-Adaptor:

The same PC/IP version works, but NCSA-Telnet 2.2D does not. The
386/ix-stuff does not work, too. PC-NFS we did not try until now.

WD8003E -microchannnel-Ethernet-Adaptor: ( /2 -> 2nd class ?)

Our first experiment was to test NCSA-Telnet 2.2D. It failed. WD's
diagnostics say that the adaptor work fine. Somewhat disappointed
we did not try the other packages because they did not explicitly
mention the microchannel version of the adaptor.

Some time ago I've heard WD's 8003-family would be register-compatible
on every board. But with the above told experience my thoughts went to
George Orwell: All registers are equal. But some are more equal.

So, what did I wrong? Are there any known bugs in the software or in
the boards? How can I solve my problems?

Any answers, comments and solutions are greatly appreciated.

Wolfgang Ksoll
Techn. Univ. Berlin (West), Germany
Computer Center
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