From: Dan Olson <dano@agora.rdrop.com>
To: Linux-8086 - ELKS <Linux-8086@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: 286 xterm?
Date: Tue, 10 Sep 2002 11:55:05 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020910115036.R88111-100000@agora.rdrop.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ac4e1a85f73efb97@mayday.cix.co.uk>
> AFAICR Ethernet only became popular with the arrival of Win 3.11 on 386s.
> All those loose 10Mb ethernet cards are much later vintage, I suspect from
> the switch between 10Mb/s and 100Mb/s.
>
> I don't know how many <=286s were retro-fitted with ethernet though and
> as 10Mb cards are now seen as worthless I don't suppose it matters.
I guess a little of this stuff is somewhat before my time, but I seem to
recall ethernet being popular with Novell Netware for drive sharing and
printer sharing with MS DOS. For example, my high school had a netware
server with all the applications on it, and many of the school's computers
just booted off a floppy, loaded the network drivers, then ran everything
from the server. The network included everything from origional PCs and
Tandy 1000s to newer (at that time) 386s and 486s. I have a few 3 Com
etherlink cards (not etherlink II) that are full length 8 bit cards that
required a manual jumper to select thicknet (DB15) or ten-base-2 (coax).
Dan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-09-10 18:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-08-25 18:54 286 xterm? Bardelli Luigi
2002-08-25 21:42 ` Stefan de Konink
2002-08-25 21:54 ` Riley Williams
2002-08-25 22:31 ` Stefan de Konink
2002-09-01 6:28 ` Dan Olson
2002-09-01 9:48 ` Luigi Bardelli
2002-09-01 19:10 ` Rob Helmer
2002-09-01 19:06 ` Stefan de Konink
2002-09-01 19:29 ` Paul Nasrat
2002-09-02 9:44 ` Feher Tamas
2002-09-02 23:31 ` Gavin
2002-09-03 2:23 ` Gregg C Levine
2002-09-03 9:11 ` Feher Tamas
2002-09-03 16:59 ` Blaz Antonic
2002-09-03 9:23 ` Gavin
2002-09-03 17:17 ` Chad Page
2002-09-05 19:45 ` Robert de Bath
2002-09-05 20:17 ` Francois Gurin
2002-09-05 20:18 ` Dan Olson
2002-09-06 4:23 ` Gregg C Levine
2002-09-10 5:44 ` Robert de Bath
2002-09-10 18:55 ` Dan Olson [this message]
2002-09-12 15:30 ` Jacek Lipkowski
2002-09-17 16:33 ` Seemanta Dutta
2002-09-17 16:33 ` newbie...please help Seemanta Dutta
2002-09-10 21:47 ` 286 xterm? kees
2002-09-05 21:02 ` Chad Page
2002-09-03 16:17 ` Bardelli Luigi
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