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   Christian Holzapfel to lharr...@gmail.com   
   Re: IBM 10/100 Mbps Ethernet Adapter (9-   
   03 Dec 23 04:12:49   
   
   From: google@holzapfel.biz   
      
   lharr...@gmail.com wrote:   
   > What are the chances of a DOS driver?   
      
   The leaked sources for the original PCnet DOS packet driver are around.   
   They are plain x86 Assembly, processed by   
      
   # MAKE  Version 3.6   
   # TASM  Version 3.1   
   # TLINK Version 5.1   
      
   Generally, the places such a driver needs modification to work with our 9-K   
   are well known to Ryan and me and properly documented now - but I'm not that   
   fluent in Assembly (yet).   
   Furthermore, the DOS driver is working in 16-bit mode only, while the 9-K ASIC   
   and also the PCnet chip in our case need some 32 bit addressing.   
   So it's a little more to it, but generally doable.   
   Maybe in the boring, gray start of next year I could look into it.   
   If someone else is willing to pick that up, I'm happy to help :-)   
      
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