ddl@HARVARD.HARVARD.EDU (Dan Lanciani) (02/08/90)
|From: @tut.cis.ohio-state.edu:rpi!image.soe.clarkson.edu!news@zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu (Russ Nelson) | |Well, the TRW Ethernet board certainly *does* exist, because we have one |here. Xircom wants to keep the way they read the parallel port secret |because they've developed a fast way to read it (supposedly). A Clarkson |grad student made a paper design for a S-100 Ethernet card using yours and |my fav Ethernet controller, the 82586. If you or someone could give me the name of a person at TRW who might know what I am talking about I would appreciate it. With regard to Xircom, if they really get a patent on reading a byte by reading four status lines, shifting, masking, reading again, and oring, I'll be surprised (and a little unhappy...) Dan