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From: stormy@Rain.MsState.EDU (Stormy Henderson)
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Subject: Re: Would the design be right this time? (Re: Interested in PowerPC for Linux / FreeBSD / NetBSD?
Followup-To: comp.sys.powerpc,comp.sys.intel,comp.os.misc,comp.unix.bsd,comp.unix.pc-clone.32bit,comp.unix.sys5.r4,comp.unix.misc,comp.os.linux.development,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.386bsd.development,comp.os.386bsd.misc
Date: 18 Dec 1994 06:27:39 GMT
Organization: Mississippi State University
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S. Lee writes:
- Hot-pluggable peripherals (Keyboard, mice, disk drives?)
- built-in DSP
- built-in graphics accelarator (better, one that can handle sprites and
several levels of background scrolling)
- auto-eject floppy drives
- built-in networking
Ugh. Builtin stuff that anyone interested in a power system will not want.
But will probably have to pay for anyway. Which will then be disabled (I
would hope IBM would have the brains to allow disablement/replacement of
built-ins) to allow installation of something better.
Auto-ejecting floppies are darn cool though (long as we can still get them
out when the power fails), and I don't have any objection to a built-in
network card as long as it isn't below average in performance.
Be happy...
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