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On Sun, 4 Jan 1998, Scot Elliott wrote:

>  The problem I have with the lack of PCI slots is usually when I want lots of
> network cards in a machine.. With two SCSI controllers you can only have two
> other cards.  People on this list keep going on about multi-port DEC cards,
> but I jut can't get hold of them - DEC claim they don't do them - and if they
> did then they'd apparently only work in a DEC PC.  God knows why.  So if anyone
> in the UK has any info on that then I'd much appreciate it ;-)

i don't remember a discussion about DEC multi-port ethernet cards.  what i
remember being discussed was multi-port ethernet cards based on a DEC
controller chip.  one of the brands was ZNYX and the website is
http://www.znyx.com