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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
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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