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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!swrinde!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!math.fu-berlin.de!easix!jester!michael From: michael@jester.GUN.de (Michael Gerhards) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Distribution: world Subject: Re: Emulex DCP-286i comms. board & 386bsd? X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL0] References: <22or52$7ov@manuel.anu.edu.au> Message-ID: <9307273428@jester.GUN.de> Organization: private COHERENT system ( member of the Individual Network e.V. ) Date: Tue, 27 Jul 93 13:59:58 GMT Lines: 15 Mathew BM LIM (mbl900@anusf.anu.edu.au) wrote: > I have "inherited" the following board from off the AT bus on a Sun 386i, > has anyone encountered one like it and does it work with 386bsd? > >From the manual : > "The Emulex DCP-286i is a high-performance, miltiprotocol communications > processor for IBM PC products with on-board intelligence in the form of an > Intel 286 microprocessor. <marketing guff deleted> ^^^ 386BSD and NetBSD are ports to the Intel-386-architecture. They need 32 bit and the 286 has only 16. If you want to run a Unix-like OS, try Minix or COHERENT 3.2. Michael -- * michael@jester.gun.de * Michael Gerhards * Voice: 0049 2131 82238 * * Preussenstrasse 59 * Data : 0049 2131 80923 * * Germany 41464 Neuss * Login guest, no passwd *