From owner-freebsd-mobile Tue May 13 18:55:06 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id SAA03271 for mobile-outgoing; Tue, 13 May 1997 18:55:06 -0700 (PDT) Received: from genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.96.120]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id SAA03256 for ; Tue, 13 May 1997 18:54:59 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from msmith@localhost) by genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (8.8.5/8.7.3) id LAA19912; Wed, 14 May 1997 11:24:52 +0930 (CST) From: Michael Smith Message-Id: <199705140154.LAA19912@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: Re: IBM 560? In-Reply-To: from "Brian N. Handy" at "May 13, 97 06:45:50 pm" To: handy@sag.space.lockheed.com (Brian N. Handy) Date: Wed, 14 May 1997 11:24:52 +0930 (CST) Cc: msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au, freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL28 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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. -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@gsoft.com.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@gsoft.com.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control. (ph) +61-8-8267-3493 [[ ]] Unix hardware collector. "Where are your PEZ?" The Tick [[