From owner-freebsd-www Wed Nov 12 08:55:57 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id IAA17360 for www-outgoing; Wed, 12 Nov 1997 08:55:57 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-www) Received: from mailwall.nwest.mccaw.com (mailwall.attws.com [155.176.34.35]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id IAA17353 for ; Wed, 12 Nov 1997 08:55:53 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from terrance.odonnell@attws.com) Received: from nwestmail.nwest.mccaw.com by mailwall.nwest.mccaw.com (8.7.1/McCaw V8 version 1) id IAA22258; Wed, 12 Nov 1997 08:55:14 -0800 (PST) Received: by nwestmail.nwest.mccaw.com (8.6.12/McCaw V8 version 1) id IAA25027; Wed, 12 Nov 1997 08:55:13 -0800 Received: from hq_msg01.nwest.mccaw.com by nwestmail.nwest.mccaw.com (8.6.12/McCaw V8 version 1) id IAA25024; Wed, 12 Nov 1997 08:55:13 -0800 Received: by hq_msg01.nwest.mccaw.com with SMTP (Microsoft Exchange Server Internet Mail Connector Version 4.0.995.52) id <01BCEF48.A8CB70C0@hq_msg01.nwest.mccaw.com>; Wed, 12 Nov 1997 08:55:00 -0800 Message-ID: From: "O'Donnell, Terrance" To: "'www@FreeBSD.ORG'" Subject: Micro Channel Bus Date: Wed, 12 Nov 1997 08:55:11 -0800 X-Mailer: Microsoft Exchange Server Internet Mail Connector Version 4.0.995.52 Encoding: 12 TEXT Sender: owner-freebsd-www@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Hi, Does FreeBSD work with IBM's MicroChannel Bus? I searched the FAQ and did not see any references that it does not. I know that Linux does not support or even suggest installiation on this hardware. I have a Thinkpad 720, which screems using dos, but I do a lot of unix & aix work and would like to avoid the dos problems(short file names etc. on file transfers). I have linux on another machine, and plenty of version cd, but they do me no good. So will free BSD work on this machine. I am aware certain versions require more than the 4MB I have on this machine. Thanks Terry O'Donnell