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Date: Mon, 16 Dec 1996 12:34:49 -0500
To: Charles Green <green@fang.cs.sunyit.edu>
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Subject: Re: NIC confusion
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At 11:46 AM 12/16/96 -0500, you wrote:
>        I have a question, maybe someone can help me out. I was reading
>through some advertisements at some 10/100Mb NE2000 compatable NICs. Correct
>me if I'm wrong but wouldn't a NIC running in NE2000 compatablility mode be
>running at only 10Mb? Or is there a NE2000 spec. for 100Mb?

I think that the word "compatible" is being used rather poorly here....

Dennis
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>Charles Green, PRC Inc.			             
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