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From: timk@NCSA.UIUC.EDU (Tim Krauskopf)
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Subject: Re: MCA Ethernet boards
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Date: 28 Jun 88 14:27:58 GMT
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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