CompuServe Messages

Byron, <<The Intel EtherExpress PRO/100 PCI lan cards are out, running at 100 Mbps – think I'll trade up.>> We had the same idea — in fact we were ready to go to town: a $250 100Mbs Ethernet Card — Wow! Sounds too good to be true!!! …. It is too good to be true… Sadly, while the cards are cheap, the only hub that will work with the Intel cards is by Synoptics and starts at $16,000. (No, I didn't misplace a digit, and yes, this was twice confirmed by Intel…) :(… On your Lantastic woes: We recently had a loaner Compaq SystemPro P60 that we tried to run as both backup server and slave… Sadly, the beast crashed to DOS whenever we wrote files to the machine over the network… at least it didn't hang itself! (I think that we were using QEMM 7.0 as a memory manager.) –Donald