> Every lan card I've seen has a big empty dip socket. I gather from earlier
> exchanges here that it is referred to as a boot eprom. So... what does it
> do if it was installed? What sort of software would reside in it?

Usually it adds extensions to the bios so that the bios can boot off a
device connected to the card.  This is not of much value now that disks are
so cheap.


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