Mike Tripp said in a message to Lawrence Garvin:
Interesting history, Mike. Thanks. I'd not heard that much detail.
One comment on your last sentence though...
 MT> ... and expects they'll make back their money as one of few 
 MT> vendors that will still be supporting inexpensive 10mbit ISA as 
 MT> the competition races off into 100 mbit PCI in search of higher 
 MT> margins. 
With 100mbit PCI cards in the $50 range.... and 100MB hubs in the $50/port 
range... one is hard-pressed to imagine a continuing market for 10Mbit ISA 
cards. Would you not agree?
Or perhaps the question should be, who, exactly, do they think their "cheap 
end ISA 10Mbit/sec" market is? Even IF I was going to put a 10MBit/sec ISA 
card in an older system, I'd surely be interested in maximizing the use of 
that slow bus, and would opt immediately for a 3Com Etherlink III card at $79 
(or less), to insure best performance.
I've got a couple of these $30 clone cards in my systems now, and they're 
dogs sitting next to the 3Com cards. Luckily I just acquired two more 3C509s, 
and the dogs are going to the doghouse next weekend!
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