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On Mon, 5 May 2003, Ceri Davies wrote:

> On Mon, May 05, 2003 at 04:44:40PM +0200, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote:
> > http://www.ofug.org/~des/sunultra.jpg
> 
> Seriously though, why is the Ultra 1 unsupported?
> 

  Well, just some of the on-board controllers don't work, because there
aren't drivers for them yet.

  I think that people are having trouble getting excited about a writing
drivers for a $25 computer.

Tom