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From: lim@cwlim.CWRU.EDU (Hock Koon Lim)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip.ibmpc
Subject: Re: ethernet card portability
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Date: 8 Dec 88 14:21:30 GMT
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In article <8812062152.af22648@Obelix.TWG.COM> deborah@CITI.UMICH.EDU (Deborah Swanberg) writes:
>
>From discussion here, I've gotten the impression that ethernet
>cards operate across machines, but I just want to verify it.
>
>Do PC ethernet cards operate across machines, eg. does the 
>WD8003E, or 3C503 operate on the PCs, PC/XT, PC/AT and the
>PS/2 30 and PS/2 30 286?  The question also applies to the
>cards for the MCA across the PS/2 50 and 80.
>

  Yes, PC ethernet cards operate across machines for the same bus 
architecture.  eg.  3c503 can be used in IBM PCs, HP Vectra, PS2/30 etc.
and 3C523 can be used in IBM PS2/50 -> 80.

Hock Koon Lim, A. R. Jennings Computing Center	           
Case Western Reserve University; Cleveland, Ohio, USA  44106   
(216) 368-2982        lim@cwlim.cwru.edu