on 7/20/00 5:24 PM, Henry B. Hotz at hotz@jpl.nasa.gov wrote:

> At 5:19 PM -0400 7/20/00, Matthew Reilly wrote:
>> Is the PC card spec close to or based on ATA? It makes me wonder, it seems
>> strange for Apple to go this proprietary route for seemingly little gain.
>> But hey, we are talking about Apple here.
> 
> I can only say that there are url's which describe how to use the
> full-strength encryption card sold for PC's with Mac's in place of
> the export-encryption-only version that Apple sells.  You can even
> buy a PC card (looks like it anyway) and replace the PC card inside
> the AirPort.  It even works with Apple software except that you have
> to put the keys in on a PC.  They are a standard product from Lucent.
> 
> 
> Signature failed Preliminary Design Review.
> Feasibility of a new signature is currently being evaluated.
> h.b.hotz@jpl.nasa.gov, or hbhotz@oxy.edu
> 

Oh OK, I was confused. I thought you were talking about the card that went
inside the macs. The Airport base station has a Lucen Wavelan PC card inside
plugged into some sort of single chip AMD 486 that handles the NAT and DHCP.

cheers, 

Matthew