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  1. Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
  2. Path: sparky!uunet!ulowell!cs.ulowell.edu!vpham
  3. From: vpham@cs.ulowell.edu (vinh)
  4. Subject: Re: Install bindist from C: or FTP+NE1000
  5. Message-ID: <C01M4D.EB8@ulowell.ulowell.edu>
  6. Sender: usenet@ulowell.ulowell.edu (News manager - ulowell)
  7. Organization: University of Massachusetts at Lowell Computer Science
  8. References: <1992Dec24.114250.10992@vax.oxford.ac.uk> <21250011@hpuamsa.neth.hp.com>
  9. Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 22:50:37 GMT
  10. Lines: 10
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  12. In article <21250011@hpuamsa.neth.hp.com> reink@hpuamsa.neth.hp.com (Reinier Kleipool) writes:
  13. >Hello,
  14. >
  15. >
  16. >  That is right. The ne driver is internal in the kernal only.
  17. >It does not have a /dev/ specialfile. So
  18. why is it that network cards dont' conforrm to the standard 
  19. UNIX device(neither a block nor a character device).
  20. Is there any historical reason?
  21. Thanks.`
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