Lawrence Garvin wrote in a message to Mike Tripp:
 LG> With 100mbit PCI cards in the $50 range.... and 100MB hubs in 
 LG> the $50/port range... one is hard-pressed to imagine a 
 LG> continuing market for 10Mbit ISA cards. Would you not agree?
I think that depends to some extent on whether you're talking about a 
business or a small home network,  the priorities are going to be somewhat 
different...
:-)
 LG> Or perhaps the question should be, who, exactly, do they think 
 LG> their "cheap end ISA 10Mbit/sec" market is? Even IF I was going 
 LG> to put a 10MBit/sec ISA card in an older system, I'd surely be 
 LG> interested in maximizing the use of that slow bus, and would 
 LG> opt immediately for a 3Com Etherlink III card at $79 (or less), 
 LG> to insure best performance.
It's nice to see that those boards are so well-liked out there,  as that's 
what I happened to acquire here. 
 LG> I've got a couple of these $30 clone cards in my systems now, 
 LG> and they're dogs sitting next to the 3Com cards. Luckily I just 
 LG> acquired two more 3C509s, and the dogs are going to the 
 LG> doghouse next weekend!
I've got five of those 3Com cards,  and maybe one or two others of unknown 
quality by comparison.  Is there that much difference between them?
And what are you going to do with those old cards?  :-)
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