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From: manoj@ca.excelan.com (manoj @ Mail Prod Mktg)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip.ibmpc
Subject: Re: TCP/IP software for EXOS 205T (Excelan) card
Summary: Excelan
Message-ID: <2406@excelan.COM>
Date: 21 Nov 90 07:13:21 GMT
Sender: news@excelan.COM
Organization: Novell, San Jose CA.
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In article <EMV.90Nov19182559@poe.aa.ox.com>, emv@ox.com (Ed Vielmetti) writes:
> 
> Hi.  I'm trying to figure out the history of the software used to
> drive the Excelan EXOS 205T smart ethernet card.
> 
> I have in hand manuals for a version 3.2.5 of the software dated
> roughly June of 1987.  It refers to itself is "EXOS 8051-02 TCP/IP
> Network Software".

The earth has made over 1000 orbits of the sun since Jun 1987.. and there have
been several new releases since 3.2.5

The product was 8051-02 was named to LAN WorkPlace for DOS
starting with Rel 3.3, which had follow up revisions to 3.4 and 3.5, 
all leveraging the Excelan 205T and the 215T boards..

> I also have in hand the manual for a different product which specifies
> that it needs to use the same EXOS 205T board but with driver software
> whose manual is "Using the LAN Workplace for DOS".
> 
> p.s. Calling Excelan support is real fun.  First of all, they are now
> part of Novell, so when you ask for the Excelan # at 1-800-555-1212,
> you get the Lanalyzer part of Novell.  A miss on one of the other
> menus (compatibility questions) lands you at a "call cannot be
> completed as dialed message.

If you followed any of the press, Novell acquired Excelan last year and so
Excelan ceased to exist. Thus you should have asked for Novell in the 800
directory info. There was a forwarding # for about one year for Excelan phones
but it has been ages since the merger happened..

Novell;s #s are 801 379 5900 or 800-LANKIND. For Updates 800-UPDATE1

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