From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Dan Olson Subject: Re: 286 xterm? Date: Tue, 10 Sep 2002 11:55:05 -0700 (PDT) Sender: linux-8086-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <20020910115036.R88111-100000@agora.rdrop.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Return-path: In-Reply-To: List-Id: Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Linux-8086 - ELKS > 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