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- Number: A2TH071990U177
- Subject: No Workstation Drivers For NE3200 or NE2/32
- Date: August 1, 1990
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- GENERAL
- INFORMATION: According to the product manager for 386 LAN drivers,
- Novell's stand on workstation drivers for the NE3200 and
- NE2-32 boards has not changed and is as follows:
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- There are no current plans to provide workstation drivers
- for either the 286 or the 386 environment. Because these
- boards are considered high-end file server cards and
- marketing does not anticipate a large demand for these cards
- to be used in workstations.
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- This isn't only a marketing issue.
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- DOS is a 16-bit OS, as are OS/2 and NetWare 286. As we all
- know, this means they push data around 16 bits at a time.
- Right? There is no way they would benefit significantly
- from 32-bit LAN cards. Some recent benchmarks in PC
- Magazine showed that the Compaq Systempro's 32-bit drive
- array actually slowed DOS down! So the moral of the story
- is 32-bit cards are for the 32-bit OS. There is really only
- one.
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