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From: gts@violet.berkeley.edu (Greg Small)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip.ibmpc
Subject: Re: PC/IP vs. Ungermann-Bass PC-NIU
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Date: 9 Jun 89 02:10:38 GMT
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= Article 1631 of comp.protocols.tcp-ip.ibmpc:
= From: ron@ron.rutgers.edu (Ron Natalie)
= Choke.  The PC-NIU is one of these smart Ethernet card.  It's use is not too
= widespread, and it is expensive.  Hence, not too many people other than UB
= have implemented anything for it.  .......
= 
= Article 1633 of comp.protocols.tcp-ip.ibmpc:
= From: latzko@pilot.njin.net (Alex )
= Actually, its worse than that.  Of the only three things which I have ever
= been aware of which ran on that card only one is still in production.

This kind of loose talk irritates me rather more than a bit.  If we had not
been too technically backward to cope with the early intelligent Ethernet
adapters, then the production volume would be much higher and the price much
lower.  The DOS memory impact of an intelligent adapter such as UB's PCNIU
is MUCH lower than the dumb adapters.  With UB's TCP-PC Release 16.0, the
DOS resident interface is about 18k and provides simultaneous Telnet, Netbios,
TCP/UDP/IP and raw Ethernet to the TCP/IP code on the board.  This kind of full
service interface makes the board valuable not cheap.

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