Overview Of Point Enablers, Socket Services, Card Services, And Super Client Drivers - 3Com 3C389 User Manual

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HAPTER
See the README.TXT files on the TokenDisk diskettes for
information on 3C389 PC Card features not documented
in the user guide.
Overview of Point Enablers, Socket Services,
Card Services, and Super Client Drivers
Computers that support PC Cards have one or more PC
Card slots, known as A, B, C... or 1, 2, 3....
Communication between the LAN device driver and the
PC Card is enabled by a software layer which may include
one or more of the following programs:
Figure 1-1 shows how these programs operate relative to
each other. A dotted line means that the program has
fulfilled a temporary function and is no longer operating
or resident in memory.
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NTRODUCTION
Compliance with PCMCIA and IEEE 802.5 standards,
Revision 2.
Support for a variety of network operating systems
and network applications.
Auto Ring Speed option that automatically detects the
data rate of the ring.
Point Enablers
Card Services
Socket Services
Super Client Drivers