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From: jdudeck@polyslo.CalPoly.EDU (John R. Dudeck)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.lans
Subject: Re: What's the best/cheapest PC ethernet card?
Message-ID: <25cb6d7f.17c@polyslo.CalPoly.EDU>
Date: 3 Feb 90 23:47:11 GMT
References: <130@mnopltd.UUCP> <730.25c11533@miavx1.acs.muohio.edu>
Reply-To: jdudeck@polyslo.CalPoly.EDU (John R. Dudeck)
Organization: Cal Poly State University -- San Luis Obispo
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>In article <130@mnopltd.UUCP>, neal@mnopltd.UUCP writes:
>> ->I distinctly remember seeing recently a magazine article concerning
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>> ->Artisoft, who makes LANtastic, and has come out with a very inexpensive
>> ->Ethernet card.  The card is aimed at providing an upgrade path from the

I had exactly the same frustration, and discovered that the article was
not in a magazine, but rather on a 3x5 card that came in the mail from Byte!

>Probably not the article refered to, but there is a new product announcement
>in the February issue of Byte magazine Re: Artisoft ethernet cards (p.84).

The article in Byte is essentially identical to the above mentioned card.

The price of Ethernet seems to be coming down finally to the point where
it is attractive.

-- 
John Dudeck                           "You want to read the code closely..." 
jdudeck@Polyslo.CalPoly.Edu             -- C. Staley, in OS course, teaching 
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