Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!lll-tis!helios.ee.lbl.gov!pasteur!ucbvax!NCSA.UIUC.EDU!timk From: timk@NCSA.UIUC.EDU (Tim Krauskopf) Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip Subject: Re: MCA Ethernet boards Message-ID: <8806281427.AA24672@zaphod.ncsa.uiuc.edu> Date: 28 Jun 88 14:27:58 GMT Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: The Internet Lines: 27 Date: 27 Jun 88 17:27:48 GMT From: tektronix!tekgen!sytek@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU (Mike Ewan) In article <8852310494.20601603.HEILNER_K> HEILNER_K@VAXC.STEVENS-TECH.EDU writes: >Can anyone recommend a vendor who supplies a Micro Channel >Architecture(MCA) Ethernet board??? > Try AST. Mike Don't bother "trying" AST. As of April, 1988, only two vendors were SHIPPING MCA Ethernet boards, Ungermann-Bass and 3Com. They both use the Intel 82586 chip, the 3Com board has an on-board transceiver and the UB does not. MICOM and Western Digital have announced boards which may be on some dealer's shelves by the time you read this, but I don't know any users which have them in hand. These companies market some of the lower-priced boards for the PC bus, so they may be good price competitors. Tim Krauskopf timk@ncsa.uiuc.edu (ARPA) National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign