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Was the NE2000 Really That Bad?


Over the last few months I have been on and off digging into the history of early PC networking products, especially Ethernet-based ones. In that context, it is impossible to miss the classic NE2000 adapter with all its offshoots and clones. Especially in the Linux community, the NE2000 seems to have had rather bad reputation that was in part understandable but in part based on claims that simply make no sense upon closer examination.
A genuine Novell NE2000 card (1992) with DP83901
First let’s recap a bit. In late 1986, National Semiconductor introduced the DP8390/91/92 chip set including a complete Ethernet controller, encoder/decoder, and a transceiver. The DP8390 NIC was a relatively simple design, not as advanced as the Intel 82586 or AMD LANCE, but significantly more capable and cheaper than the low-end offering of the era, the 3Com 3C501 EtherLink. ....

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