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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msuinfo!uwm.edu!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!swrinde!pipex!uunet!ncrgw2.ncr.com!ncrhub2!ncr-mpd!skyhook!joelw From: joelw@FtCollinsCO.NCR.COM (Joel Ward) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.bugs Subject: NetBSD: ncr0 misnamed Message-ID: <5710@ncr-mpd.FtCollinsCO.NCR.COM> Date: 16 Nov 94 20:04:06 GMT Sender: uucp@ncr-mpd.FtCollinsCO.NCR.COM Lines: 16 X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL5 Two reasons it's wrong: 1) NCR MPD (microelectronics product division) just got sold to Hyundai (sp?) they're getting a new name that's not hyundai and not NCR. 2) NCR is coming out with a kick-ass PCI IDE controller with dual-channel DMA and burst rates of about 14 megs/sec on current disk drives. Intel featured the prototype of this chip in thier "future of computing" display at Comdex. (yes, it works. intel was running NT on it) - Joel (just a note:)