The Am7990 is an Ethernet media access controller (MAC) controller introduced in 1985. LANCE, short for "local area network controller for Ethernet", is also the brand name for follow-up versions of the chip. Its architecture is the basis for AMD's...
A lance is a pole weapon based on the spear.
3Com 3c509 is a line of Ethernet IEEE 802.3 network cards for the ISA, EISA, MCA and PCMCIA computer buses. It was designed by 3Com and put on the market in 1992, followed by the improved version 3c509B in 1994.
The NE1000 and NE2000 are members of an early line of low cost Ethernet network cards introduced by Novell in 1987. Their popularity had a significant impact on the pervasiveness of networks in computing. They are based on a reference design from...
The SPARCstation 2 (Sun 4/75, code-named Calvin) is a SPARC-based workstation computer sold by Sun Microsystems as part of their SPARCstation family. Sun introduced it on November 5, 1990, for between US$14,995 at the low end to US$49,995 at the...
DEC 3000 AXP was the name given to a series of computer workstations and servers, produced from 1992 to around 1995 by Digital Equipment Corporation. The DEC 3000 AXP series formed part of the first generation of computer systems based on the 64-bit...
The DECstation was a brand of computers used by DEC, and refers to three distinct lines of computer systems—the first released in 1978 as a word processing system, and the latter (more widely known) two both released in 1989. These comprised a range...
The Quick Emulator (QEMU) is a free and open-source machine emulator and virtualizer. As a Virtual Machine Monitor (VMM) it supports a number of hypervisors, including the Linux-based Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM), Xen, MacOS's HVF, Windows'...
