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Subject: Re: if_de.c ???? 
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At 03:12 PM 5/6/97 -0700, you wrote:
>> 
>> While I rarely agree with dennis, he's dead on with this one.  I bought
>> 30-40 de cards for my 25 or so servers, now only to find it apparently a
>> dead-end driver, and the Intel card being the card-de-jour (or however
>> that's spelled).
>> 
>> And so I'll start purchasing intel cards, and 8 months from now, the
>> Novell NE2000 cards will be the hot card to have.
>
>
>It *is* a (mostly?) volunteer effort, and it appears from here in 
>the cheap seats that Matt got irritated at something or another, and no
>longer desires to keep de current, for whatever reason.  The thing
>I don't understand is why the cold shoulder given to the 211xxx
>cards by Jordan and DG, among others.  So what if the cpu utilization
>is higher?  These nics are cheap, and not sole source, IMHO a
>real *good* thing.

Maybe whoever they have that secret  "deal" with that they were sort of 
telling us about in a recent thread doesnt use the de cards? 

Just a guess.

db