*BSD News Article 4809


Return to BSD News archive

Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
Path: sserve!manuel!munnari.oz.au!uunet!usc!wupost!rice!fontenot
From: fontenot@ravl.rice.edu (Dwayne Jacques Fontenot)
Subject: local bus and 386bsd compatible?
Message-ID: <BuCrK9.CJ@rice.edu>
Sender: news@rice.edu (News)
Organization: Rice University
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1992 08:00:09 GMT
Lines: 18


hello,

I will very soon be in the market for a machine on which to run 386bsd.
I intend to get an EISA machine because I know that EISA drivers will be
written sooner or later :-)

But what I want to know is this: Is there any reason to not get a local bus
machine? I intend to only run unix (well, maybe OS/2 too :-). I really want
to run XFree86 -- that is my main application.

So, are there any local bus video/SCSI controller drivers out there?
Are any being worked on? Or is local bus inherently incompatible with
unix?

thank you for you time,

Dwayne Fontenot