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Yeah, but as called out in the article, ISA (8257 style) DMA wasn't a good option either. And carving out address space came with its own set of problems, espec
by anyfoo 6y ago
Yeah, but as called out in the article, ISA (8257 style) DMA wasn't a good option either. And carving out address space came with its own set of problems, especially if you needed this to work on DOS (with maybe Windows on top)--which was pretty much the default at the time.
PCI made most of that go away with its introduction, hence me wondering what the replacement card was.
- oso2k 6y agoProbably something with a rtl8129/39/69 chip. I had a few dozens of those NICs in the late 90s and early 2000s university computer labs I worked at. They’re so common that they’re (almost) a standard in x86 emulation (see qemu, VirtualBox, etc.).
- anyfoo 6y agoYeah, those are PCI.
- rasz 6y agoThose realteks are internally still clones on NE2000, with some realtek tweaks and addons.
- Taniwha 6y agothey still had linux kernel bugs, I remember having to port a freebsd fix to linux to get it to work in a cloud/farm application where collisions could make ALL the cards on every devices go out to lunch for 10 minutes