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From: hyc@math.lsa.umich.edu (Howard Chu)
Subject: Re: parallel<->ethernet wanted
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In article <12245@asylum.SF.CA.US> romkey@asylum.SF.CA.US (John Romkey) writes:
>In article <1884@murdu.oz> pjr@murdu.ucs.unimelb.edu.au (Peter Rayner)
>asks for a parallel port to ethernet adapter.
>
>Try Xircom. They manufacture an ethernet adapter that plugs into uni-
>and bi-directional parallel ports. They also make token ring and
>arcnet adapters. Recent packages include a packet driver, which should
>work with most popular freely available and commercial TCP/IP's for
>PC's.

This sounds like a slick little device, anyone know any more about it?
Or ST ethernet products in general? I remember talking to Mike Schmal
at Atari about an official Atari ethernet product a year or so ago, but
I haven't heard anything about it since.

I know there are a few ethernet products available now. It may be a good
idea to come up with an ST equivalent of the PC Packet Driver interface.
I certainly don't expect that all these boards are programmed the same way.
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  -- Howard Chu @ University of Michigan
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