Last I checked, the Cirrus (who bought out Crystal) stocks of this nice
chip were all in Allocation, i.e. You & I can NOT get any yet...  Drat!

  Mark

David Kott wrote:
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> I saw a circuit for a Crystal Semiconductor CS8900 standalone ethernet
> interfaced directly to a PIC16C74.  I don't know much about the host
> interface to a NE2000 NIC, but, I don't think the CS8900 is compatible.