Re: 286 xterm?

[Robert de Bath <robert$@mayday.cix.co.uk>]

On Fri, 6 Sep 2002, Gregg C Levine wrote:

> Hello from Gregg C Levine
> Indeed! In fact whenever I had to work on a system that was a bona-fide
> PC/XT type, it wore a 3c509, or something along those lines. You can pick up
> a 3c509 for price that's so low, you'd swear that the card was a clone.
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Dan Olson" <dano@agora.rdrop.com>
> To: "Linux-8086 - ELKS" <Linux-8086@vger.kernel.org>
> Sent: Thursday, September 05, 2002 4:18 PM
> Subject: Re: 286 xterm?
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> >
> > > Of course VNC needs ethernet too and I would expect that to be rather
> > > rare on a machine of that age.
> >
> > 8 and 16 bit ISA ethernet cards are very common, actually.

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.

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Rob.                          (Robert de Bath <robert$ @ debath.co.uk>)
                                       <http://www.cix.co.uk/~mayday>