Date: Sun, 9 Nov 1997 16:34:00 -0800 (PST) From: Dmitry Kohmanyuk <dk@dog.farm.org> To: tlambert@primenet.com (Terry Lambert) Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: x86 gods; advice? Suggestions? Message-ID: <199711100034.QAA27994@dog.farm.org>
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In article <199711091032.DAA24687@usr06.primenet.com> you wrote: > It's true that if Sun was *really* interested in making their "standard" > a _standard_, they'd provide source code for the thing. I think it's > because they don't sell any machines with PCI slots yet. The people > who were pushing it were Motorola, and the PowerComputing and Apple > people, who wanted to use commodity cards in their boxes without a > per card driver to set video modes, etc.. NetApp file servers use OpenBoot, and they use PCI hardware with Intel CPU (they now have alpha boxes also, but I haven't got one so I don't know does it use OpenBoot or not.) -- You Know You've Been Hacking Too Long When... ...you are about to feed your cat and you find yourself thinking half-consciously, "is this an AT&T cat or a Berkeley cat?" -- acbul1@penfold.cc.monash.edu.au (Andrew Bulhak)
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