From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Mar 18 17:11:17 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA09821 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Wed, 18 Mar 1998 17:11:17 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (dingo.cdrom.com [204.216.28.145]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA09807 for ; Wed, 18 Mar 1998 17:11:07 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dingo.cdrom.com (8.8.8/8.8.5) with ESMTP id RAA23844; Wed, 18 Mar 1998 17:06:56 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <199803190106.RAA23844@dingo.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0zeta 7/24/97 To: Warner Losh cc: John Polstra , lem@cantv.net, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: SMP kernel on Compaq anyone? In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 18 Mar 1998 18:04:53 MST." <199803190104.SAA20525@harmony.village.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Wed, 18 Mar 1998 17:06:55 -0800 From: Mike Smith 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.... We may have a solution for this (a proper one) in the wings. > I kinda like the torx T15 screws that they use to hold it together :-) > Good luck finding them in the store, however. T15's? Easy stuff. Now, pin-torx are a little harder, but not as annoying as, say, tri-wings. -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message