Hello Lawrence.
26 Apr 98 11:10, Lawrence Garvin wrote to Andrew Grillet:
 LG> That's because IBM is correct. Eagle Technologies is the actual
 LG> manufacturer of the 2000 cards distributed by Novell.
 LG> Thus the designation NE2000 (Novell Eagle 2000). :)
Actually, NEx000 cards were originally a Novell design, manufactured in 
Novell plants with National Semiconductor parts, before Eagle had anything to 
do with them.  When Novell bowed out of the hardware business, they licensed 
the right to manufacture the cards to others.  Microdyne was the first 
licensee.  Then Novell signed a deal with Nat'l Semi to resell the chipsets 
(but not boards, due to the Microdyne contract), which led to the plethora of 
NEx000 "clones".
When Microdyne's contract was up, Eagle Technologies picked it up.   Then 
Artisoft picked it up...picking up Eagle in the process.  Since then ('95), 
Microdyne has purchased Eagle from Artisoft, the ethernet card division of 
Nat'l Semi, and is the sole remaining source and expects they'll make back 
their money as one of few vendors that will still be supporting inexpensive 
10mbit ISA as the competition races off into 100 mbit PCI in search of higher 
margins.
.\\ike
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