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From: romkey@kaos.UUCP (John Romkey)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.appletalk,comp.dcom.lans
Subject: Re: National Ethernet chip "DP8390"
Message-ID: <893@kaos.UUCP>
Date: 22 May 88 16:34:46 GMT
References: <366@draken.nada.kth.se>
Reply-To: romkey@kaos.UUCP (John Romkey)
Organization: Chaos; Somerville, MA
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In article <366@draken.nada.kth.se> ragge@nada.kth.se (Ragnar Sundblad) writes:
>Is there anyone who knows anything about the ethernet chip
>on the Apple EtherTalk cards, "DP8390"?

The DP8390 is National Semiconductor's ethernet controller. It's quite
a normal ethernet controller except that it's pretty easy to program
(modulo some bugs in the chip). It's a standard part that is used in
other ethernet interfaces, most notably the Western Digital WD8003 for
the IBM PC.
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