Date: Tue, 4 Apr 1995 20:14:07 -0600 From: kelly@fsl.noaa.gov (Sean Kelly) To: crs@beta.lanl.gov Cc: jkh@freefall.cdrom.com, doc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: New Status Message-ID: <9504050214.AA06265@junco.fsl.noaa.gov> In-Reply-To: <9504041605.AA18468@beta.lanl.gov> (crs@beta.lanl.gov)
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>>>>> "Charlie" == Charlie Sorsby <crs@beta.lanl.gov> writes:
Charlie> I have a request for this department: How about a chapter
Charlie> for those of us who know a bit of Unix but next to
Charlie> nothing about PCs?
An excellent request, really. I've hacked Suns and HPs all my life
and wanted an inexpensive BSD-style OS at home but couldn't begin to
afford typical workstation hardware. The market that IBM and MS-DOS
created though was much more in my price range---and there was FreeBSD
to boot---literally!
But I'm still clueless when it comes to motherboards, BIOS, PCI vs VLB
and other trivia.
Until FreeBSD docs can fill this niche, you might want to take a look
at the PC Unix FAQ, available at rtfm.mit.edu or your favorite FAQ
repository. It's a wee bit dated, but a good start.
--k
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