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From: mjb@iris.UUCP (Mike Braca)
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Subject: Re: Looking for PC hardware information.
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Date: Wed, 8-May-85 02:48:39 EDT
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>> We are looking for information/pointers to information
>> on the following items :
>> - Ethernet interfaces for IBM-PC.
>
>The only one I'm aware of is, unfortuantely, the 3-COM board.
>

Very fortunately, Ungermann-Bass has come up with an IBM-PC ethernet
board with 16K worth of RAM buffers (12K in, 4K out). This thing runs
rings around the 3com board. It's called a P-NIC (pronounced "picnic")
and it's only available to OEMs currently.
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Mike Braca, Brown Univ/IRIS, "Home of the Scholar's Workstation"
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