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From: dan@lclark.UUCP (Dan Revel)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.lans
Subject: Parallel port NICs
Summary: Are they any good?
Message-ID: <1138@lclark.UUCP>
Date: 23 Apr 91 17:56:29 GMT
Reply-To: dan@lclark.UUCP (Dan Revel)
Distribution: comp
Organization: Lewis & Clark College, Portland OR
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I've been seeing ads for several ethernet interfaces for laptops
that plug into the parallel port.  Does anyone have experience with
these?  What sort of network performance do they provide?  Could
they be used for desktop PCs as well? (it would save one expansion slot)
What about software support?  Are there packet drivers for these NICs?

Thanks,

Dan
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