Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!wuarchive!julius.cs.uiuc.edu!rpi!clarkson!news.clarkson.edu!nelson From: nelson@sun.soe.clarkson.edu (Russ Nelson) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.lans Subject: Re: Intel 82583 Ethernet chip Message-ID: Date: 15 Oct 90 15:51:45 GMT References: <1990Oct12.153422.20325@watdragon.waterloo.edu> Sender: news@news.clarkson.edu Reply-To: nelson@clutx.clarkson.edu (aka NELSON@CLUTX.BITNET) Distribution: na Organization: Clarkson University, Potsdam NY Lines: 13 In-Reply-To: nelson@sun.soe.clarkson.edu's message of 12 Oct 90 22:03:26 Nntp-Posting-Host: sun.soe.clarkson.edu In article nelson@sun.soe.clarkson.edu (Russ Nelson) writes: What's an Initialization Root? I've got Intel's "LAN Component User's Manual", which thoroughly documents the 82586, and I see no reference to any initialization root. Yeah, right. It's your eyes that go first. I happened to glance at the caption for a figure I must have stared at a hundred times, and guess what it said? Yup, "Initialization Root". Sorry for any confusion... -- --russ (nelson@clutx [.bitnet | .clarkson.edu]) Russ.Nelson@$315.268.6667 It's better to get mugged than to live a life of fear -- Freeman Dyson