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From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@FreeBSD.org>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Mail-order computers????
Date: Wed, 03 Apr 1996 17:22:46 -0800
Organization: Walnut Creek CDROM
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To: Robert Withrow <witr@rwwa.com>

Robert Withrow wrote:
> The only thing not supported by FreeBSD is the ethernet card (3C595).

That's now changed in -current.

> The only bummer is that Pure doesn't support FreeBSD.

Or any other i386 architecture, for that matter (e.g. you can't buy it
for SCO or Solaris either).  Considering how they do inline instruction
replacement for load/stores, I'm not at all surprised, either.
-- 
- Jordan Hubbard
  President, FreeBSD Project