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From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Micro Channel Bus?
Date: 14 Jan 1996 21:09:04 GMT
Organization: Utah Valley State College, Orem, Utah
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Message-ID: <4dbrdg$hle@park.uvsc.edu>
References: <4d64rg$5hs@hilbert.dnai.com> <4d724l$jle@hilbert.dnai.com> <DL4tn0.LK@mail.physik.fu-berlin.de> <DL4yp3.99M@ritz.mordor.com>
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ritz@ritz.mordor.com (Chris Mauritz) wrote:
>
> Thomas Graichen (graichen@mail.physik.fu-berlin.de) wrote:
> : Ha Ha (alex@I_should_put_my_domain_in_etc_NNTP_INEWS_DOMAIN) wrote:
> : : Ha Ha (alex@yahoo.com) wrote:
> : : : Will FreeBSD work on a microchannel bus system?
[ ... ]
> Why bother? It's a proprietary bus offered only by IBM
> and I think that even they have abandoned it. It is usually
> quite difficult even to find MCA cards these days.
Because you can get the machines for less than their value
would be after BSD is loaded.
Same reason anyone bothers to run on 386's at all.
BTW: there have been ABIOS drivers and a SCSI driver written
for MCA machines; they were just never integrated into the
source tree.
No, I don't have the keys to the tree, so don't bother asking
me for the contributed code.
Terry Lambert
terry@cs.weber.edu
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Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present
or previous employers.