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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!paladin.american.edu!gatech!usenet.eel.ufl.edu!news.mathworks.com!fu-berlin.de!zib-berlin.de!news.tu-chemnitz.de!irz401!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: MCA port for NETBSD / FREEBSD ? Date: 21 Apr 1996 21:45:46 GMT Organization: Private FreeBSD site, Dresden Lines: 24 Message-ID: <4leaaa$f8r@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <4lcahf$knr@mimsy.cs.umd.edu> <4lcql4$bbb@eusapia.nthu.edu.tw> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc:3277 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:17928 u821624@Oz.nthu.edu.tw (u821624 ls) writes: (FreeBSD on MCA) > AFAIK, that's impossible. Yep. > 'Cause Micro Channel is patented product of IBM.... Nope. 'cause nobody finished a port of FreeBSD to the MCA architecture. > Any OS can not support MCA without the license from IBM.... Nope. You only need a license for making hardware. However, this seriously limited the widespread use of the MCA architecture, so IBM basically shoot in their foot with this policy. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)