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From: jbreeden@netcom.UUCP (John Breeden)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip
Subject: Re: NDIS spec.
Message-ID: <18626@netcom.UUCP>
Date: 12 Dec 90 15:51:01 GMT
References: <9012102013.AA10764@ftp.com> <18484@hydra.gatech.EDU>
Organization: Netcom- The Bay Area's Public Access Unix System {408 241-9760 guest}
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In article <18484@hydra.gatech.EDU> ce1zzes@prism.gatech.EDU (Eric Sheppard) writes:
>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!
>

I think that whoever you talked to gave you bad info. UB sells their 
complete set of NDIS MAC drivers (ISA & MCA NIC & NIUs) for fifty
bucks. They figure by charging, they stop the people who are "just
collecting drivers", big customers get them for free.

Something tells me you got a quote for a tcp-ip package - not NDIS drivers.

I don't work for UB, but I know what they charge for the drivers.
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