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From: wayfarer@cwis.unomaha.edu (Tom ginie K.)
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Subject: PC-CARD (Thank you for Re:'s)
Date: 18 Dec 1995 01:26:15 GMT
Organization: University of Nebraska at Omaha
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> I wrote:
> >I am looking for a PC-card to install in Apple Power Macintosh 6100.
> >I reckon that it is most economical/efficient way to experience
> >unix-flavorOS, Linux or F.bsd.
Thanks for all helpful friends at cyber space.
Here's some respond I had (within 2days!).
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On Wed, 13 Dec 1995, Crisper Than Thou wrote:
> The 6100 DOS card will not run anything other than Windows 3.1, Windows
> 95, and Windows for Workgroups. It will not run NT, any flavor of
> Unix, OS/2, etc. So don't even consider it as a Linux box (I wrote up
> an Apple internal use document on this very subject a few months ago).
> Unless someone hacks up a bunch of specific drivers which can translate
> the Mac<->PC communication which goes across the PDS slot, who knows
> both Linux and PPC coding, it's not going to happen.
rshapiro@bbn.com (R Shapiro) wrote:
> Apple's DOS card for the 6100 doesn't support linux, it only supports DOS,
> Win 3.1 and Win 95. I don't know of anyone else currently making a card
> for the 6100.
nolanw@iglou.com (Nolan W. Whitaker) wrote:
> My understanding is that the Apple's DOS card WILL NOT work with
> either Linux or FreeBSD.
> This has already been answered. The only extant 6100 DOS card does NOT
> support any operating systems other than DOS, Windows 3.1, Windows For
> Workgroups 3.11 (more or less) and Windows 95.
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University of Nebraska at Omaha 402-554-2528 [W:DSC104]
C&DC consultant Tom ginie K.
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