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From: rkb55989@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Rafal Boni)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: Will *BSD and XFree86 run on this Pentium system?
Date: 2 Jun 1994 12:33:52 GMT
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
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moore%defmacro.cs.utah.edu@cs.utah.edu (Tim Moore) writes:
>I'm looking into buying a Pentium-based system with the following specs:
>90Mhz Pentium. Motherboard has 2 PCI, 4ISA, 1 shared, Neptune chipset.
>Matrox PCI video controller.
This contrroller is in the same boat as the Diamond products.... The
manufacturer won't give out data w/out NDA.
>BusLogic PCI SCSI controller.
>1.06Gig SCSI disk.
Should work just fine....
>Does anyone have any experience with similar systems, or know of
>reasons why this system wouldn't work with FreeBSD or NetBSD and
>XFree86?
>Thanks,
>--
>Tim Moore moore@cs.utah.edu {bellcore,hplabs}!utah-cs!moore
>"Wind in my hair - Shifting and drifting - Mechanical music - Adrenaline surge"
> - Rush