Hello Jeff.
28 Apr 98 11:01, Jeff Dunlop wrote to Mike Tripp:
 JD> You have followed the NE-2000 very impressively.
Nah...actually never had one and never wanted one.  Most of that was just 
from memory while keeping up with Novell over the years.  My personal use has 
always been WD/SMC and 3Com.
 JD> However, Microdyne has sold their networking product line, and they
 JD> don't say to whom.  The important part of all this is that all the
 JD> drivers are at ftp.microdyn.com, and that www.microdyn.com tells you
 JD> _nothing_ about how to locate support software.
After surfing a bit, it appears that they announced they were discontinuing 
their NIC division in June '97.  Nov 19 '97 - they announced an agreement 
with Intel to license their 100mbit ISA cards and technology to Intel.  Nov 
24 '97, they announced an agreement with Sundaynet (pacific rim) to license 
the NE2000plus adapters, complete with Novell and Eagle trademarks.
This latest chapter was all news to me.  Thanks for prompting the research, 
and my next dissertation on NEx000's will be even more complete as a result. 
:) I'm sure that Lawrence will be happy to see that their gameplan didn't pan 
out as they anticipated as well. ;)
I suspect that customer demand in the ISA/10 market kept the majors from 
abandoning their competing products as soon as anticipated, which also kept 
Microdyne from gaining the upper hand in the timeframe that they had 
anticipated.
.\\ike
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