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Date: Thu, 6 Aug 1998 12:28:07 -0700 (PDT)
From: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>
To: cliff ainsworth III <cliff@cliffsworld.com>
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Subject: Re: Tiara Lancard/A
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On Sun, 2 Aug 1998, cliff ainsworth III wrote:

> 
> hello,
> 
> I was given two Tiara Lancard/A 's circa 1988. I went through the archives
> and the only reference was to the "C" or "E". the on with the Fujitsu chips
> which according to the archives does not work (no drivers written for it as
> yet). On this particular card, I see nothing but Phillips chips scattered
> across the board and the Tiara chip has NCR on it. 
> 
> I decided to let '95 take a crack at it and it promptly installed it.

What did it detect as?

> During the setup up it briefly mentioned "BSD socket API for Windows". Any
> ideas if this card is FreeBSD compatible? 

It may emulate an existing card.  The note you saw was for WINSOCK.DLL
which implements BSD-style network sockets on Windows, since networking on
Windows came after the fact.

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major


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