[CLUE-Tech] Old Bloody Hardware...

[Dave Price]

On Tue, Jan 14, 2003 at 08:39:55AM -0700, Randy Arabie wrote:
> On Sunday, 13 June 2010 at 15:27:46 -0600, Dave Price <davep at kinaole.org> wrote:
> > 
> > and today's trivia question: what does the NE in NE2000 mean ... extra
> > points for historical accuracy
> > 
> > free NE2000 (clone) {hint} to the winner
> 
> Novell Ethernet?  Novell produced the first NE2000 nics, now there are
> many clones.
> 
You win a free NE2000 (clone) {i used to have some real ones, but you
would not want one ... except for historical interest) 

You could have gotten extra points by saying that Novell once made
ARCnet cards too ... or noting that the real NE2000's were 'jumper'
setup cards ... 

ARCnet ... what was the bandwidth?  ...  and why was it actually superior
to {hint unswitched} ethernet in some applications? (not cost)

aloha,
dave

- winner gets an ARCnet card ....