[comp.sys.next] Kinetics Ethernet Board

woo@pioneer.arc.nasa.gov (Alex Woo RAC) (11/24/89)

Kinetics was working on an Ethernet Board which would have
both twisted pair and transceiver connections.  It was
supposed to be waiting on version 1.0 software.  Is it now
available?  Has anyone actually used it?

There were also rumors of a appletalk or localtalk or whatever
variant.  Are there now such boards?


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izumi@violet.berkeley.edu (Izumi Ohzawa) (11/24/89)

In article <3936@amelia.nas.nasa.gov> woo@pioneer.arc.nasa.gov (Alex Woo RAC) writes:
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>Kinetics was working on an Ethernet Board which would have
>both twisted pair and transceiver connections.  It was
>supposed to be waiting on version 1.0 software.  Is it now

And it also requires the availability of the Bus Interface
Chip, which must go into the empty socket on the NeXT's
board (You must have seen that if you intalled the 1.0 ROM),
and also into the board anybody is building.

What's the status of the Bus chip availability?
When do 3-rd party board developers get them (if not already)?
And when do we get one for our cubes?

Izumi Ohzawa