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Intel Corp. last week introduced the NetportExpress XL, a new high-end addition to the company's line of print servers.
Compared to Intel's existing Netport II, the NetportExpress XL delivers a major jump in performance and adds hardware support for multiple network protocols. The new server also supports up to three printers at a time, with a pair of high-speed bidirectional parallel ports and one serial port.
About the size of a videotape, the NetportExpress XL consists of an Intel 80186 processor, network interface chips, 1M byte of random-access memory, 128K bytes of flash memory and a Client/OS multitasking operating system that lets it switch between network protocols.
According to Chad Taggard, Intel's product-line manager for...