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From: ldb@cse.nd.edu
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Micro Channel Bus?
Date: 15 Jan 1996 22:04:46 GMT
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In <DL4yp3.99M@ritz.mordor.com>, ritz@ritz.mordor.com (Chris Mauritz) writes:
>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?
>: 
>: : : TIA
>: : : Alex Winske
>: 
>: : Okay... no it doesn't.
>: 
>: : Is there a free unix flavor that does?
>: 
>: i think some people in the linux corner are doing it - but don't ask
>: me where to find it (was in the news some days ago - in
>: comp.os.linux.system i think)
>
>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
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It seems that IBM has decided not to use the microchannel for PCs, and is instead 
using ISA/PCI stuff.  However, they still use the microchannel for their workstations.