The newest card with drivers from Creative is a SoundBlaster AWE64, and a lot of modern LAN cards still have DOS/Windows NDIS Drivers. The newest cards I've seen that support WFW are the ATI Rage II PCI 3D Accelerators. The Pentium 60/66 is crippled by a bad FPU, terrible thermals, and overall poor design, while the 5x86 133 is still a true 486 running at 4x the bus speed.
WFW came around at a time when the 486 was king. The reason I stop at the Pentium 60/66 or Am5x86 133 is wasted potential. a 10/100/gigabit PCI LAN card with appropriate WFW NDIS Drivers VGA for base functionality, Floppy Drive to install software, and an Ethernet card to connect to the LAN. DOS takes up around 3MB, Windows 8MB, leaving about 10MB for a minimal software setup. Anything under 4MB is vbery slow and pokey.
Windows For Workgroups requires a 386 for the network stack to work properly.
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