From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Nov 9 16:36:57 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id QAA18375 for hackers-outgoing; Sun, 9 Nov 1997 16:36:57 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers) Received: from dog.farm.org (gw-hssi-2.farm.org [209.66.103.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id QAA18370 for ; Sun, 9 Nov 1997 16:36:50 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dog.farm.org!dk) Received: (from dk@localhost) by dog.farm.org (8.7.5/dk#3) id QAA27994; Sun, 9 Nov 1997 16:34:00 -0800 (PST) Date: Sun, 9 Nov 1997 16:34:00 -0800 (PST) From: Dmitry Kohmanyuk Message-Id: <199711100034.QAA27994@dog.farm.org> To: tlambert@primenet.com (Terry Lambert) Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: x86 gods; advice? Suggestions? Newsgroups: cs-monolit.gated.lists.freebsd.hackers Organization: FARM Computing Association Reply-To: dk+@ua.net X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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)