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From: bill@polygen.uucp (Bill Poitras)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip.ibmpc
Subject: Re: Cabletron optical ethernet boards?  packet drivers?
Message-ID: <817@redford.UUCP>
Date: 11 Aug 90 16:21:02 GMT
References: <9008061603.aa27833@louie.udel.edu>
Reply-To: bill@redford.UUCP (Bill Poitras)
Organization: Polygen Corporation, Waltham, MA
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In article <9008061603.aa27833@louie.udel.edu> junger@cwru.cwru.edu writes:
>	Now the rumour is that we are going to be supplied with cabletron
>optical ethernet boards and packet drivers and will continue using
>the Stanford software.
>
>	My question is whether there could be any truth to this
>rumor?  Are there optical cabletron boards for PS/2 50s?  If there
>are, are there packet drivers for those boards?
Don't know about the PS/2 boards, but I do know about the ISA boards.  That 
rumor that you heard, well I heard it too.  My boss said that we will be
getting the optical cabletron boards, which will have packet drivers to go
with it.  He heard this from Cabletron.


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