From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Apr 16 19:42:21 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id TAA27498 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 16 Apr 1996 19:42:21 -0700 (PDT) Received: from who.cdrom.com (who.cdrom.com [204.216.27.3]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id TAA27493 for ; Tue, 16 Apr 1996 19:42:19 -0700 (PDT) Received: from genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.96.120]) by who.cdrom.com (8.6.12/8.6.11) with ESMTP id TAA00978 for ; Tue, 16 Apr 1996 19:42:15 -0700 Received: from msmith@localhost by genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (8.6.12/8.6.9) id MAA05241; Wed, 17 Apr 1996 12:03:00 +0930 From: Michael Smith Message-Id: <199604170233.MAA05241@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: Re: FreeBSD and Microchannel? (fwd) To: support@cdrom.com (Jamil Weatherbee) Date: Wed, 17 Apr 1996 12:03:00 +0930 (CST) Cc: questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: from "Jamil Weatherbee" at Apr 16, 96 01:29:03 pm MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Jamil Weatherbee stands accused of saying: > I recently purchased FreeBSD 2.1 without noticing that microchannel bus > PC's were not listed under system requirements. Does this mean it will > be impossible, extremely difficult, or achievable if I try to install > this on an mc based machine? Totally impossible at this point. IBM won't release documentation on the MCA, so it's not possible to write code to support it. > Dave Rein -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control (ph/fax) +61-8-267-3039 [[ ]] Collector of old Unix hardware. "Where are your PEZ?" The Tick [[