Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix.sco
Path: utzoo!utgpu!watserv1!maytag!looking!brad
From: brad@looking.on.ca (Brad Templeton)
Subject: Re: Which Ethernet Card To Use?
Organization: Looking Glass Software Ltd.
Date: Sat, 29 Sep 90 04:16:29 GMT
Message-ID: <1990Sep29.041629.27169@looking.on.ca>
References: <3363@anomaly.sbs.com> <12781@asylum.SF.CA.US> <1990Sep26.192939.17819@looking.on.ca> <12787@asylum.SF.CA.US>

In article <12787@asylum.SF.CA.US> romkey@asylum.SF.CA.US (John Romkey) writes:
>>What are the WD Etherlink cards?  A completely different generation of
>>card?
>
>EtherLink usually refers to 3COM's 3C501; EtherLink II usually refers
>to 3COM's 3C503. I can't remember what glossy-name WD uses for their
>cards.

Whoops.  I meant the Ethercard Plus or whatever is commonly advertised.
Somebody once said it is compatible.  What are the performance specs
there?

I would be interested in numbers on the 8003 vs. 8013.  It's something
like $170 for one vs $260 for the other.
-- 
Brad Templeton, ClariNet Communications Corp. -- Waterloo, Ontario 519/884-7473