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From: shapircs@craft.camp.clarkson.edu (Carl S. Shapiro)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: MCA port for NETBSD / FREEBSD ?
Date: 22 Apr 1996 01:59:09 GMT
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u821624 ls (u821624@Oz.nthu.edu.tw) wrote:

(stuff cut out)

:     I might be wrong, but...


:     AFAIK, that's impossible.

:     'Cause Micro Channel is patented product of IBM....

:     Any OS can not support MCA without the license from IBM....


I do belive that IBM actually published the MicroChannel spec (I could be
wrong to, but I am pretty sure about this).