From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Mar 18 17:04:49 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA07908 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Wed, 18 Mar 1998 17:04:49 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from rover.village.org (rover.village.org [204.144.255.49]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id RAA07899 for ; Wed, 18 Mar 1998 17:04:43 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from imp@village.org) Received: from harmony [10.0.0.6] by rover.village.org with esmtp (Exim 1.71 #1) id 0yFTkr-0003yv-00; Wed, 18 Mar 1998 18:04:21 -0700 Received: from harmony.village.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by harmony.village.org (8.8.8/8.8.3) with ESMTP id SAA20525; Wed, 18 Mar 1998 18:04:54 -0700 (MST) Message-Id: <199803190104.SAA20525@harmony.village.org> To: John Polstra Subject: Re: SMP kernel on Compaq anyone? Cc: lem@cantv.net, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 18 Mar 1998 09:06:02 PST." <199803181706.JAA20467@austin.polstra.com> References: <199803181706.JAA20467@austin.polstra.com> <3.0.5.32.19980317211035.00a2b290@pop.cantv.net> Date: Wed, 18 Mar 1998 18:04:53 -0700 From: Warner Losh Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In message <199803181706.JAA20467@austin.polstra.com> John Polstra writes: : Furthermore, Compaq : considers every little incompatibility to be valuable proprietary : information, which it will not release to anybody except Microsoft ... : They don't want you to run : FreeBSD on their machines, and they won't give you the time of day if : you run into problems. hmmm, that would explain why my presario reports 16M of memory when it, in fact, has 40M in it.... I kinda like the torx T15 screws that they use to hold it together :-) Good luck finding them in the store, however. Warner To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message