Date: Wed, 27 Mar 2002 02:33:03 -0500 (EST) From: Peter Leftwich <Hostmaster@Video2Video.Com> To: <Roger534@aol.com> Cc: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: I guess it's not going to work Message-ID: <20020327022949.F56651-100000@earl-grey.cloud9.net> In-Reply-To: <140.bce0850.29d2c269@aol.com>
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On Wed, 27 Mar 2002 Roger534@aol.com wrote: > I'd like to thank everyone who encouraged me to install FreeBSD on my old PC, but it turns out that that machine has the "broken" CMD PCI-0460 disk controller, and also appears to have what linux users call a "Winmodem" which is incompatible with anything but Microsoft Windows. So I guess I'll hang on to the FreeBSD manual and a couple of programming books I bought (bash and gawk) until I can afford a new machine. I have seen the future, and it is called Open Source . Winmodem? Is that some kind of very nonstandard/obsolete chipset? Could be worse -- you could own an old USR Sportster modem (I don't but used to work for an ISP and you can't believe how many USR [l]users had issues)! Per your wishes for new, affordable hardware remember two things (1) CPU greatness, powerfulness and up-to-date-ness are not very important to the various i386 Unix flavors and (2) http://www.EBay.com :) (I can't beleive I just recommended ebay which is a piece of "itshay.") -- Peter Leftwich President & Founder Video2Video Services Box 13692, La Jolla, CA, 92039 USA +1-413-403-9555 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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