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From: st@epcc.ed.ac.uk (Scott Telford)
Subject: Re: MicroChannel support ?
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In article <6Wgw06BJo$B@rimki.toppoint.de>, Christoph Rimek
(chrimek@rimki.toppoint.de) wrote:

> Hello
> 
> Is there any support for the (outdated) Micro-Channel-Architecture ?

> The machine I have in mind to support is equipped with an on-board SCSI
> controller (NCR 53C94) and an Adaptec AHA1640.

I have written some drivers and patches for NetBSD/i386 1.2 to support
MCA-bus PS/2s. Currently I have an MCA bus driver, miscellaneous
PS/2-specific patches and driver (actually bus-specific driver
front-ends) for the AHA-1640 and 3Com 3C523. I've no idea how similar
your NCR machine is to a PS/2 but it would be interesting to find out.

See http://www.epcc.ed.ac.uk/~st/netbsd-mca.html

-- 
Scott Telford, Edinburgh Parallel Computing Centre,       <s.telford@ed.ac.uk>
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