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From: vpham@cs.ulowell.edu (vinh)
Subject: Re: Install bindist from C: or FTP+NE1000
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Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 22:50:37 GMT
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In article <21250011@hpuamsa.neth.hp.com> reink@hpuamsa.neth.hp.com (Reinier Kleipool) writes:
>Hello,
>
>
>  That is right. The ne driver is internal in the kernal only.
>It does not have a /dev/ specialfile. So
why is it that network cards dont' conforrm to the standard 
UNIX device(neither a block nor a character device).
Is there any historical reason?
Thanks.`