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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!news.mindlink.net!agate!reason.cdrom.com!usenet From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@FreeBSD.org> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Micro Channel Bus? Date: Sun, 21 Jan 1996 20:35:39 -0800 Organization: Walnut Creek CDROM Lines: 18 Message-ID: <3103141B.794BDF32@FreeBSD.org> References: <4d64rg$5hs@hilbert.dnai.com> <4d724l$jle@hilbert.dnai.com> <DL4tn0.LK@mail.physik.fu-berlin.de> <DL4yp3.99M@ritz.mordor.com> <Pine.SOL.3.91.960118224948.53A-100000@icarus.cc.uic.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: time.cdrom.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.0b6a (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.1-STABLE i386) Rory Imua Lampert wrote: > Why bother? I can get at least 50+ machines up and running FreeBSD doing > something usefull like sucking up juice instead of collecting dust. ;> Excellent! It's exactly this kind of necessity that breeds invention, and since such necessity is indeed quite rare (I think everyone else must have thrown their PS/2 machines away, because the question comes up pretty rarely! :-) I think it would be a fine idea if you were to spearhead a movement to port FreeBSD to the MCA architecture. It'd pretty much a certainty that none of us are going to do it given that we have a) no free time and b) no MCA machines. While a) might be a problem for you, you do at least have b), and that brings you 50% closer to the solution than any of us. Go for it! :-) -- - Jordan Hubbard President, FreeBSD Project