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From: ce1zzes@prism.gatech.EDU (Eric Sheppard)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip
Subject: Re: NDIS spec.
Summary: Customer gouging causing mass exodus
Message-ID: <18484@hydra.gatech.EDU>
Date: 11 Dec 90 21:09:01 GMT
References: <9012102013.AA10764@ftp.com>
Organization: Georgia Institute of Technology
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In article <9012102013.AA10764@ftp.com>, fks@FTP.COM (Frances Selkirk) writes:
> 
> Unlike packet drivers, most NDIS drivers are written by hardware
> manufacturers, and are owned by those manufacturers. (As far as I
> know, however, only Ungerman-Bass charges customers for their NDIS
> driver.) They tend to be supported software.
> 

I'd like to add that Ungermann-Bass' last quote on the yet-to-be-released
NDIS driver for their NIU (not NIC) cards is $395 for the TCP stack version.  
Man! Spend over a thousand for this NIU card, and it won't even work with 
anything that's not UB software until you fork over another $four hundred!  
We can't get non-UB cards to work with the UB-net software, we can't get 
NIU cards to run NFS.  What a waste!

Eric
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