>How true ;-). Pick up a ISA ethernet card  claimed to be NE2000 compatible
>and you're done. Almost. The versions on those chips changed too fast to
>count.

I think you will find that even many of the PCI cards use chips that are
NE2000 compatible, it is just that they have the PCI configuration circuitry
in front of them, not necessarily on the same chip. I seem to remember
looking at a chip from National Semiconductor recently which was compatible
with the older chips that were used on the true NE2000 cards.

Cannot remember the chip number off hand, but recall it was an extra digit
on the old chip that is on the ISA NE2000 cards.

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