Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!image.soe.clarkson.edu!news From: nelson@sun.soe.clarkson.edu (Russ Nelson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc Subject: Re: Steve Gibson's 386sx column Message-ID: Date: 14 Feb 90 14:37:07 GMT References: <29140@amdcad.AMD.COM> <29158@amdcad.AMD.COM> Sender: news@sun.soe.clarkson.edu Reply-To: nelson@clutx.clarkson.edu Organization: Clarkson University, Potsdam NY Lines: 18 In-reply-to: phil@pepsi.amd.com's message of 13 Feb 90 20:19:48 GMT In article <29158@amdcad.AMD.COM> phil@pepsi.amd.com (Phil Ngai) writes: In article nelson@clutx.clarkson.edu writes: |are quite a few of these boards, among them the 3c501 and ni5010 (I |wouldn't put either of these in a 386), Novell NE[12]000 and clones. According to the NetWare Buyer's Guide, the Novell cards have on board buffer RAM. Are you saying this RAM is not in the PC's memory address space? Yes, this RAM is not in the PC's address space. Same for the other cards. But beware: the 3c501 and ni5010 only have 2K of RAM, whereas the Novell and clones have 8K of ram. 2K is quite insufficient. -- --russ (nelson@clutx [.bitnet | .clarkson.edu]) Russ.Nelson@$315.268.6667 Violence never solves problems, it just changes them into more subtle problems