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Date:      Wed, 14 May 1997 11:24:52 +0930 (CST)
From:      Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
To:        handy@sag.space.lockheed.com (Brian N. Handy)
Cc:        msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au, freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: IBM 560?
Message-ID:  <199705140154.LAA19912@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.OSF.3.96.970513184254.31379E-100000@sag.space.lockheed.com> from "Brian N. Handy" at "May 13, 97 06:45:50 pm"

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Brian N. Handy stands accused of saying:
> >>  * Is there any hope of making this combo card (a USR) work?
> >
> >Not in the short term.  It's WIP for Nate.
> 
> D'oh.  I know Nate isn't working on it!  I think one of the nomads is
> though, but even then I'm not sure it's the USR.  If there's a volunteer,
> there's a *chance* I can come up with a card.

The issue is to do with the basic support for nested interrupts; it
can be brutally hacked into 2.2, or should (hopefully) come for free
with Doug & Stefan's work with 3.x

> A port replicator as I understand it is a gizmo that you have sitting on
> your desk that you plug your monitor, keyboard and mouse into.  Then when
> you walk in with your laptop (be it the IBM 560 or something else) you
> just plug it into this gizmo and viola, you've got a full desktop sorta
> look and feel.  It's similar I think to the docking stations that Macs
> use.
> 
> I think.  That's what I'm going on anyway.

Ok, so we're both in the dark.  Replicators that I've met don't
usually have any other stuff in them wrt. video, so if it works
standalone, it'll work in the replicator.

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