 The original card, the NE1000 (8-bit ISA; announced as "E-Net adapter" in February 1987 for ) The "NE" prefix stood for "Novell Ethernet".The NE2000, using the 16-bit ISA bus of the PC AT followed in 1988.It uses thin Ethernet; the second ("B") revision added an Attachment Unit Interface (AUI) port to support a transceiver, and later models NE1000T and NE2000T added built-in 10BASE-T support.