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From: Rory Imua Lampert <rory@uic.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Micro Channel Bus?
Date: Thu, 18 Jan 1996 22:50:48 -0600
Organization: University of Illinois at Chicago
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On Sat, 13 Jan 1996, Chris Mauritz wrote:
> 
> 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.
> 
> Chris

Why bother?  I can get at least 50+ machines up and running FreeBSD doing 
something usefull like sucking up juice instead of collecting dust.  ;>

Rory Imua Lampert
ADN/CSO Consultant
University of Illinois at Chicago
rory@uic.edu