Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!cmcl2!rutgers!sri-spam!ames!ucbcad!ucbvax!jade!violet.berkeley.edu!kevin From: kevin@violet.berkeley.edu (Kevin Baranski-Walker) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: Kinetics announces 1st ethernet card for Mac II? Message-ID: <6260@jade.BERKELEY.EDU> Date: 11 Dec 87 18:20:09 GMT References: <6963@apple.UUCP> Sender: usenet@jade.BERKELEY.EDU Reply-To: kevin@violet.berkeley.edu (Kevin Baranski-Walker) Organization: University of California, Berkeley Lines: 19 Keywords: ethernet, MacII John, while it's clear that MacWeek made another one of their write-before-you-think errors, nonetheless *we* have not had an ethernet board for our Mac II's "... for the past year ...". In fact after waiting 5 months I finally got it last week. I'm still not sure why Kinetics/Excelan decided to market such a product which seems to be a functional equivalent to the EtherTalk, but at $100 more. Does the Kinetics board have DMA and EtherTalk lacking? Kevin Kevin D. Baranski-Walker * The University of California at Berkeley / 271 Evans Hall / Berkeley, California 94720 / (415) 642-6672 kevin@violet.berkeley.edu -----[ You are Here ... ]