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From: fks@vaxeline.COM (Frances Selkirk)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.lans
Subject: Re: HP LMX compatibility with IBM TR (questions)
Keywords: HP NDIS TOKEN RING NDIS
Message-ID: <1259@vaxeline.COM>
Date: 3 Dec 90 20:25:15 GMT
References: <627@eds1.UUCP>
Reply-To: fks@ftp.com (Frances Selkirk)
Distribution: comp
Organization: FTP Software, Inc.
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In article <627@eds1.UUCP> jdm1@eds1.UUCP (Jon McCown) writes:
>The LMX literature discusses "NDIS compatible network cards available from
>other vendors" as being usable with LMX.  Ok, so is this an euphemism for
>TR (shudder IBM?). (my rep seemed un{willing,able} to say)

NDIS is a driver specification authored and maintained by Microsoft
and 3Com. Like packet drivers, and ODI drivers, NDIS drivers offer a
standard interface to th software above them, making packages for NDIS
automatically compatible with many cards from manufacturers such as
3Com, Western Digital, and Interlan. NDIS has nothing to do with the
Token Ring ASI.


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