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From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org>
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Subject: Re: Dual-booting FreeBSD and Windows95???
To: pechter@shell.monmouth.com (Bill/Carolyn Pechter)
Date: Tue, 2 Jul 1996 12:11:46 -0700 (MST)
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> > It hasn't changed, no. I seem to remember several people offering to do
> > MCA support over the last 2 odd years, but nothing has ever come of
> > it. I would be very surpised if anything was done about MCA support
> > in the next year or so, as it isn't very common and is becoming less so.
> > 
> > Gary
> 
> Unfortunately, this is so.  I work for IBM now and there's a Ton of
> 386's I'd be running FreeBSD on if I could get an idea of how to get
> Token Ring support and Microchannel support working.  But both are
> way beyond me.  
> 
> The machines are cheap and surplus hardware internally (and just about the
> same externally at every used hardware company...
> 
> I hear there's folks with Linux up on microchannel and I've got a Compaq
> running with Token Ring support under Linux now.

I have been looking for a cheap used PS/2 with a sufficiently large
disk for some time now, with no luck.  It's not worth paying premium
rates for something like this.  If I was still in Utah, I'd have
access to a number of PS/2 machines and a full "Networking Center
of Excellence" -- including a token ring net and fully documented
hardware.  I've been looking for token ring hardware, but it seems
a hub is required, and it's not worth $1500 to me to squelch complaints
about what is, essentially, obsolete technology.

I don't know of many hot programmers up there following my "generation";
the ones I do know are all doing simulation graphics on military contract
now, so I don't even know who to contact about conning someone into
working on it.  8-(.

An MCA port using ABIOS would probably be no more difficult than the
PC98 support already integrated into the tree.


					Terry Lambert
					terry@lambert.org
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