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From: kelly@fsl.noaa.gov (Sean Kelly)
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>>>>> "Charlie" == Charlie Sorsby <crs@beta.lanl.gov> writes:

    Charlie> I have a request for this department: How about a chapter
    Charlie> for those of us who know a bit of Unix but next to
    Charlie> nothing about PCs?

An excellent request, really.  I've hacked Suns and HPs all my life
and wanted an inexpensive BSD-style OS at home but couldn't begin to
afford typical workstation hardware.  The market that IBM and MS-DOS
created though was much more in my price range---and there was FreeBSD
to boot---literally!

But I'm still clueless when it comes to motherboards, BIOS, PCI vs VLB
and other trivia.

Until FreeBSD docs can fill this niche, you might want to take a look
at the PC Unix FAQ, available at rtfm.mit.edu or your favorite FAQ
repository.  It's a wee bit dated, but a good start.

--k